The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
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We cannot create observers by saying observe, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses
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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.
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher.. Is to be able to say, The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
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Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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