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Only the person who never forgets that he or she was once a child can become a real teacher. The misfortune of many teachers (children, especially adolescents, call them old fogeys) is that they forget that the student is first of all a living human being in the act of entering the world of knowledge, creativity, and human relations. — location:
spiritual life of children depends upon how they learn about the world and the kinds of convictions they form. But knowledge — location:
knowledge of the world does not consist solely of assimilation of knowledge. The misfortune of many teachers is that they measure and evaluate the spiritual world of the child only with grades and marks, dividing all their pupils into two categories: those who study well and the rest. — location:
The life of Janusz Korczak and his feat of amazing moral strength and purity is an inspiration for me. I learned from him that to give children a genuine education one must give them one’s heart. — location:
One of the most valuable qualities of a teacher is his humanity, a deep love for children, a love in which the heartfelt caresses and wise strictness and exactingness of father and mother are combined — location:
The proper task of education is not to correct mistakes made in early childhood, but to avoid making them in the first place, thereby eliminating the necessity for re-education — location:
Before one can pass on knowledge, one must teach children how to think; to perceive, to observe — location:
One must also be thoroughly familiar with the state of health of every child—without this it is impossible to teach normally — location:
My Pupils’ Parents: In order to know children well, one must know their families—father, mother, brothers, sisters, grandfathers and grandmothers. — location:
I was disturbed by the fact that in some families there was not a friendly atmosphere between parents and children, father and mother — location:
The better I got to know my future pupils, the more I was convinced that one of the main tasks before me was to give back childhood to those who were deprived of it in their families. — location:
We educators tend to forget that for little children, knowledge of the world starts with knowledge of the person — location: