41 quotes found
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
“Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.”
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
“Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.”
“There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.”
“The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.”
“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.”
“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”
“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.”
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
“What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious fe...”
“Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.”
“We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely. ”
“Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the mo...”
“The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science...”
“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.'”
“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
“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.”
“It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.”
“At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can s...”
“Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.”
“It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in propor...”
“If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.”
