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“Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.”
― Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
― Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
“Kids are little people. Little people who are coming to you because you are a safe-space for them. Don’t ruin the relationship of trust by lying to them.”
― The Noisy Classroom
― The Noisy Classroom
“Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.”
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“Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way”
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“Schools normally schedule one subject, for example, Japanese, the first period, when you just do Japanese; then, say, arithmetic the second period, when you just do arithmetic. But here it was quite different. At the beginning of the first period, the teacher made a list of all the problems and questions in the subjects to be studied that day. Then she would say, “Now, start with any of these you like.” […] This method of teaching enabled the teachers to observe - as the children progressed to higher grades - what they were interested in as well as their way of thinking and their character. It was an ideal way of teachers to really get to know their pupils.”
― Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
― Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
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