Grounded theory methods consist of systematic, yet flexible guidelines for collecting and analyzing qualitative data to construct theories from the data themselves….Grounded theory begins with inductive data, invokes iterative strategies of
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“Plato, in his Republic, which is considered so stern, teaches the children only through festivals, games, songs, and amusements. It seems as if he had accomplished his purpose when he had taught them to be happy; and Seneca, speaking of the Roman lads in olden days, says, "They were always on their feet, they were never taught anything which kept them sitting." Were they any the worse for it in manhood? Do not be afraid, therefore, of this so-called idleness. What would you think of a man who refused to sleep lest he should waste part of his life? You would say, "He is mad; he is not enjoying his life, he is robbing himself of part of it; to avoid sleep he is hastening his death." Remember that these two cases are alike, and that childhood is the sleep of reason.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“There is quite another class of exceptions: those so gifted by nature that they rise above the level of their age. As there are men who never get beyond infancy, so there are others who are never, so to speak, children, they are men almost from birth. The”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“Children's lies are therefore entirely the work of their teachers, and to teach them to speak the truth is nothing less than to teach them the art of lying. In your zeal to rule, control, and teach them, you never find sufficient means at your disposal. You wish to gain fresh influence over their minds by baseless maxims, by unreasonable precepts; and you would rather they knew their lessons and told lies, than leave them ignorant and truthful.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“Without the study of books, such a memory as the child may possess is not left idle; everything he sees and hears makes an impression on him, he keeps a record of men's sayings and doings, and his whole environment is the book from which he unconsciously enriches his memory, till his judgment is able to profit by it.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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