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Famous Quotes
About Learning
Wisdom from the theorists who shaped early childhood education
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
Attachment theory provides a framework for understanding the nature of emotional bonds between people, particularly between children and their caregivers. It emphasises the importance of secure attachments in promoting healthy development and emotional wellbeing throughout life.
What a child can do with assistance today she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
In the course of his movement development, the infant learns not only to turn, roll, crawl, sit, stand or walk — but he also learns to learn. He learns to occupy himself independently, to find interest in something, to try, to experiment, to overcome difficulties.
We are spinners of meaning, not passive receivers of information.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover — to create people who are capable of doing new things.
Every time we teach a child something, we keep them from inventing it themselves. That which we allow them to discover for themselves will remain with them for the rest of their life.
The child has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts, a hundred ways of thinking, of playing, of speaking.
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.
The child is not a citizen of the future; they are a citizen from the very first moment of life — a bearer, here and now, of rights, of values, of culture.
To listen is to give value, to attribute importance to the other person. It means recognising their right to speak and to be heard.
Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom — the means by which people deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to transform their world.
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
Pedagogy is not about training — it is about critically educating people to be self-reflective, capable of analysing the world around them.
Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates and policies constructed in their name.
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.
The Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
If a pupil finds it difficult, it is not the pupil’s fault but the teacher’s. The teacher must find the method that makes it easy.
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
