“The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.”
Part II : How Language Calls to the Child, p. 121
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
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Maria Montessori39
Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870–1952Related quotes
“From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
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Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook
Introduction (1971)
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:
"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
“Why I Am Not a Marxist” http://books.google.com/books?id=O4weAQAAMAAJ&q=educated+only+at+school+#search_anchor “Modern Monthly: Volume: 9″ (April 1935); Page: 77-79. <br class="br">Other works
Brian Selznick (1966) American children's illustrator and writer
I recognize how lucky I am. <br class="br"> Brian Selznick: The author who inspired Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes to make family films http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesneaks/la-ca-mn-0903-sneaks-brian-selznick-wonderstruck-20170903-story.html (September 1, 2017)
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician
AOC quoted by The Hill, Twitter, https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1146082350725337089 (2 July 2019) <br class="br">Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019