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Jai Ganesh

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Child Quotes - XVIII

Child Quotes - XVIII

1. The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. - Jane Goodall

2. When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. - Maria Montessori

3. The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it. - Maria Montessori

4. I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. - Elizabeth Taylor

5. The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man. - Maria Montessori

6. Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? - Colin Powell

7. In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely. - Maria Montessori

8. As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. - Jane Goodall.

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