Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
Interpretation
We should nurture children with kindness to foster their own kindness as they grow.
Maria Montessori emphasizes the importance of treating children with kindness, suggesting that this approach will not only benefit their development but also instill in them the values of empathy and compassion. By creating an environment of kindness, we pave the way for children to become kind individuals themselves.
In practice
During a parenting seminar, this quote can be shared to emphasize the importance of fostering kindness.
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.
When we want to infuse new ideas, _x000D_ to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, _x000D_ to breathe new vigor into its national traits, _x000D_ we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults.
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, thatβs not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
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