Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. |
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. |
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. |
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. |
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." |
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth. |
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! |
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. |
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. |
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. |
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! |
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! |
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. |
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 |
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 |