“Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you” – Kahlil Gibran –
“It is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation, in order that he may lay up for himself treasure from the directly educating forces of living nature” – Maria Montessori –
“Psychological state and health determine the academic behaviour of a child” – Celestine Freinet –
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift” – Albert Einstein –
“Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding” – Robert John Meehan –
“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action” – Meister Eckhart –
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher,… – bent down and helped us pick up our boots” – T. Marshall –