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Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults should gain some new intellectual knowledge or achieve a higher standard of culture. No, they must find a different point of departure. The adult must find within himself the still unknown error that prevents him from seeing the child as he is.
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Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation. The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.
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At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.
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A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.
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Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
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We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.
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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
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There is... in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. 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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It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
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In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisoner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.
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The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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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.
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
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If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.
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The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
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A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.
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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.
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August 31, 1870
Died:
May 6, 1952
(aged 81)
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