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“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.Play is the work of childhood.”
Piaget Jean
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“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Rimbaud
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“My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.”
Stravinsky Igor
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“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.”
Ionesco
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“There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.”
Kallas Maria
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“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Freud Sigmund
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Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”
Schiller
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“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis … mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”
Freud Sigmund
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“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”
Plutarch
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The little Prince
Exupery · 1943
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[…]
The Little Prince went to look at the roses again.
“You’re not at all like my rose. You’re nothing at all yet,” he told them.
“No one has tamed you and you haven’t tamed anyone. You’re the way
my fox wa …
The Absorbent Mind
Montessori · 1949
(The first chapter and selected excerpts)
CHAPTER I:
THE CHILD AND THE WORLD RECONSTRUCTED
In modern times the psychic life in the new-born child has called forth great interest. Many scientists and psychologists …
The Psychology of Intelligence
Piaget Jean · 1947
The original French edition, La Psychologie de l’intelligence, was published by Armand Colin in 1947 and was based on lectures Piaget had delivered at the Collège de France in 1942.
(First pages and selected excerpts) …
Emile or On Education
Rousseau · 1762
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to show themselves, let their qualities be tested and confirmed, before special methods are adopted. Give natu …