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"The directress must intervene to lead the child from sensations to ideas.",
"A child who is free to act not only seeks to gather sensible impressions from his environment but he also shows a love for exactitude in the carrying out of his actions.",
"Since it is through movement that the will realizes itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.",
"A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for this mission through study alone would be mistaken.",
"Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.",
"Confidences would come more easily in the years they are longed for if they were invited in the years when living was exciting and every act a great adventure.",
"Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.",
"The child wants to do something sensible.",
"If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.",
"I don\'t need to teach anything to children: it is they who, placed in a favorable environment, teach me.",
"What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher transformed? It is to be able to say, \"The children are now working as if I did not exist.\"",
"The didactic materials control every error. It is precisely in these errors that the educational importance of the material lies.",
"The materials, in fact, do not offer to the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.",
"Not upon the ability of the teacher does education rest, but upon the didactic system. When the control and correction of errors is yielded to the materials, there remains for the teacher nothing but to observe.",
"The education of the senses makes men observers.",
"The senses, being explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.",
"It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.",
"Some students learn without having ever received any lessons, solely through listening to the lessons given to others.",
"An educational method which cultivates and protects the inner activities of the child is not a question which concerns merely the school or the teachers; it is a universal question.",
"The education of our day is rich in methods, aims and social ends, but one must still say that it takes no account of life itself.",
"Education, as today conceived, is separated from both biological and social life.",
"One who desires to be a teacher must have an interest in humanity that connects the observer more closely than that which joins the biologist or zoologist to nature.",
"The most urgent task facing educators is to come to know this unknown child and to free it from all entanglements.",
"It is solely from a child that a man is born. An adult cannot take part in this work.",
"An adult is more definitely excluded from a child\'s world than the child himself is from the transcendent social world of the adult.",
"These words reveal the child\'s inner needs: \"Help me to do it alone.\"",
"No adult can bear a child\'s burden or grow up in his stead.",
"We could study a child from every angle and know everything about him from the cells of his body to the countless details of his every operation and we would still not perceive his ultimate goal, that is, the adult he is to become.",
"Adults manifest a contempt for children which they fail to realize. Though a parent may believe his child is beautiful and perfect, a secret urge makes him act as though his child is in need of filling and correction.",
"Without realizing it an adult, with his useless assistance and hypnotic influence, substitutes himself for the child and impedes his psychic growth.",
"Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.",
"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.",
"Averting war is the work of politicians; establishing peace is the work of education.",
"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man\'s future.",
"The teacher\'s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.",
"The education of our day is rich in methods, aims, and social ends, but one must still say that it takes no account of life itself.",
"The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.",
"The child is not an inert being who owes everything he can do to us, as if he were an empty vessel that we have to fill.",
"We, also, when we speak of education are proclaiming a revolution, one in which everything we know today will be transformed.",
"Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide.",
"This is the bright new hope for mankind. Not reconstruction, but help for the constructive work that the human soul is called upon to do, and to bring to fruition; a work of formation which brings out the immense potentialities with which children, the sons of men, are endowed.",
"The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.",
"This the new path on which education has been put; to help the mind in its process of development, to aid its energies and strengthen its many powers.",
"The childıs nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.",
"Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.",
"The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.",
"As I have so often said, it is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to each individual the chance to fulfill his potential possibilities.",
"To care for, and keep awake, the guide within every child is therefore a matter of the first importance.",
"Children become like the things they love.",
"The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.",
"Let us start with one very simple reflection: the child, unlike the adult, is not on his way to death. He is on his way to life.",
"Man is a sculptor of himself, urged by a mysterious inner force to the attainment of an ideal determined form.",
"Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.",
"No guide, no teacher can divine the intimate needs of each pupil and the time of maturation necessary to each; but only leave the child free and all this will be revealed to us under the guidance of nature.",
"The principle of liberty is not therefore a principle of abandonment, but rather one by which leading us from illusions to reality will guide us to the most positive and efficacious care of the child.",
"The secret of free development of the child consists, therefore, in organizing for him the means necessary for his internal nourishment.",
"Mind and movement are two parts of a single cycle, and movement is the superior expression.",
"The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear.", "Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationalist will disappear.",
"Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.",
"So here begins the new path, wherein it will not be the teacher who teaches the child, but the child who teaches the teacher.",
"The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.",
"The inner-directed life of the child has its own characteristics and ends, different from those of the adult.",
"The dynamic change occurring in our century is not simply the passage from one era in history to another. It can only be compared with the opening of a new biological or geological period.",
"Through new education, we must enable children to grow up with a healthy spirit, a strong character, and a clear intellect, so that as adults they will not tolerate contradictory moral principles but will gather human energies for constructive purposes.",
"The child who has never learned to act alone, direct his own actions, to govern her own will, grows into an adult who is easily led and must always lean upon others.",
"Only a sane rebuilding of the human race can bring about peace. To set about this task, we must go back to the child.",
"Grownups and children must join their forces. In order to become great, the grownup must become humble and learn from the child.",
"We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity."
];
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