Loris MalaguzziStand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.
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Most people are born knowing how to do very little. That’s why they are always surprised at how easy it is to teach life to young children. Most adults today, including myself, have very little idea about what goes on inside the minds of children. They are amazed, for example, to see how children can learn so quickly.
The secret is that these small people are only making mistakes while they learn something new. They aren’t really trying to do anything wrong, but they are just following their instincts. If you stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observing carefully what children do, you will soon discover that teaching is not really all that complicated.
You will not have to do everything yourself or get everything right the first time around.
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