WEB DB Quotes

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“The having of wonderful ideas is what I consider to be the essence of intellectual development.”—Eleanor Duckworth, The Having of Wonderful Ideas	Loose Parts: The Open Invitation of Play
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”—John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” —Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
“The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences.” —Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children
“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” —Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting
“If it hasn’t been in the hand and the body… it can’t be in the brain.” —Bev Bos
“Let us not become fixated on the artifact, but rather see the richness in the journey of its making.” Diane Kashin — Small Worlds in Early Learning: Now is the Time
“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” —Jean Piaget, To Understand Is to Invent
“To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday… The moment you have a motive for being attentive, you are no longer attentive.” — Freedom from the Known, Krishnamurti
“Let your values breathe like your parenting does. And when things feel unclear—when you’re in the thick of it—let them speak back to you. Not as rules. But as reminders of what love looks like in your home” -Rebecca