Experience first, then intellectualize.
Carl OrffRead
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
Interpretation
Children learn best when they are engaged in play rather than traditional studying.
This quote by Carl Orff emphasizes the natural inclination of children to prefer play over study. It suggests that learning should be integrated with play, allowing children to discover that their educational pursuits can be enjoyable and engaging, turning the concept of 'studying' into something as simple and delightful as 'child's play'.
In practice
This quote can be used in a presentation about innovative teaching methods.
Experience first, then intellectualize.
Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that.
I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.
If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.
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