What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.
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