an online book by David Gurteen
A child (pl. children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being.
Credit: Wikipedia - childrenDon’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up but what problems do they want to solve. This changes the conversation from who do I want to work for, to what do I need to learn to be able to do that. | Jaime Casap Continue reading Don’t Ask Kids What They Want to Be When They Grow Up Jaime Casap
We teachers – perhaps all human beings – are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working model of something, constructed in our minds out of long experience and familiarity, and by turning that model into a string of words, transplant it whole into the mind of someone else. Perhaps once in a … | John Holt Continue reading We Are in the Grip of an Astonishing Delusion John Holt
If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him. | John Holt Continue reading Don’t Try to Force a Child to Do What He Is Afraid to Do John Holt
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. | Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading Shut Up in Schools Ralph Waldo Emerson
