“I have devoted my life to children. So, after much thought, I decided to call this book, To Children I Give My Heart, considering that I have earned that right”
To gain access to that fairy castle, the name of which is Childhood, I have always endeavored to become, to some degree, a child myself. Only then do children cease to see you as intruder into their fairy-tale world or as a watchman guarding that world and indifferent to its goings-on.
In my first years of teaching, I had already decided that a real school is not just a place where children gain knowledge and skills. Studying is important, but it is not the only thing in the life of the child.
A person who meets with his students only during lessons: the teacher on one side of the desk, and the pupils on the other—doesn’t know the soul of the child.
And a person who doesn’t know children, anyone to whom their thoughts, feelings, and aspirations are inaccessible, cannot be a teacher.
`Only the person who never forgets that he or she was once a child can become a real teacher.`
Education is first of all instruction in how to be a person.
Without knowledge of the child - its mental development, thoughts, interests, hobbies, abilities, instincts, and inclinations - there is no education!
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Topic - Teaching Young Learners · To Children I Give My Heart - Vasily Sukhomlynsky