“We should spend less time
ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural
competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of
ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get
there.”
- Howard Gardner
“The path of
development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and
it’s rarely a straight line.”
-Eileen Kennedy-Moore
Retrieved from
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/child-development
"The first duty of an education is to stir up life, but leave it free to develop."
-Maria Montessori
“Our aim is not only to
make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to
touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.”
-
Maria Montessori
Retrieved
from http://junojuno2.tripod.com/words.html
I enjoyed your quotes, especially the ones from Maria Montessori. Here is another one of my favorite quotes by her.
ReplyDelete"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
- Maria Montessori
On another note, thank you for your posts and comments made during this course. It is clear to see the passion you have for children. Good luck with your pregnancy and with all of your future endeavors.
Tricia,
ReplyDeleteGreat quotes you found for this last week! I will remember then and use them in my resource file. Again, thank you for sharing such great information over the past eight weeks.
Good selections.
ReplyDeleteTricia, Thank you for for sharing all that you have. Thank you for your feedback and contribution to the class. I wish you much success !