“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.” MenChildrenSaidBodyHandsSeemsYoungGirlSensesManipulationScarSooner Or LaterHelplessLike LoveAmorousSpoilers Author:Michael Bassey
“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.” IfsKnowsWayWantFeelsChildrenImportantFactsGrowsEmotionHalfProduceReadyGardenSeedsSensesImpressionVersionsDietsSoilNot ReadyFertileKnowledge And WisdomFertile Soil Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.” KnowsChildrenFormAttentionQualityColorExerciseJudgmentSensesComparisonRepetition Author:Maria Montessori
“Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.” ChildrenDoeLosesVisionClearEvidenceDiscoveryAdultsScientistPrejudiceStriveSensesObservationPreconceptionsScientific DiscoveryCandidAberration Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought