“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.” IfsWorldWantChildrenSelfPlayFeelingsSelf EsteemBuildingProjectsCreatingCapacityStructureEnormousEsteemInternals Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
“We must become the people we want our children to be.” PeopleWantChildrenOur Children Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
“And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.” WorldBelieveChildrenDoePlayAbleDesireCapableAdultsPassionate Book:Magical child: rediscovering nature's plan for our children Source: Magical child: rediscovering nature's plan for our children
“We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.” IfsWorldChildrenGrowsGrowing UpLearningFieldsNotionBeastManipulateFallacy Book:Magical child: rediscovering nature's plan for our children Source: Magical child: rediscovering nature's plan for our children
“The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.” KnowsChildrenEarthForceParentLearningDrivingStrongestMotivatedDriving Force Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.” WantChildrenTeachBecomingOur ChildrenParentingRaising ChildrenBeing A ParentTeaching Children Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
“Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this practical, artistic approach.” ChildrenProblemSpiritualProcessParentTeacherChildhoodNeededApproachIntellectualConcernedIdealsCrisisEducationalBrilliantPracticalsPsychologicalArtisticRelevantMultitudesNurtureBreakdownUnfoldingParents And Teachers Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
“For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.” WantChildrenStatesMovingTeachModelsAdultsOur ChildrenGuidesAppropriate Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
