"A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done"
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"If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help."
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"To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom."
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"Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation."
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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 undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with."
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"The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels."
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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 study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child."
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"The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'."
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"The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self."
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"The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child."
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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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"No one can be free unless he is independent."
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"The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself."
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"Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements."
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"The child will reveal himself through work."
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"How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom?"
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"Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment."
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"It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him."
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