"The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child."
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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."
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"When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor into its national traits, we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults."
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"The development of the mind comes through movement"
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"Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind."
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"Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence."
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"No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence."
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"Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content."
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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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"Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him."
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"There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided."
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"We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction"
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"The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task."
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"The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself."
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"The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality."
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"The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child."
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"The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them."
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"Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life."
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"An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development"
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"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."
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