John Dewey
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
-John Dewey
Arnold Gessel
"The household serves as a 'cultural workshop' for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values."
-Arnold Gessel
Robert Coles
“We need heroes, people who can inspire us, help shape us morally, spur us on to purposeful action--and from time to time we are called on to be those heroes, leaders for others...“
-Robert Coles
Lev Vygotsky
“What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.”
-Lev Vygotsky
Howard Gardner
"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way."
-Howard Gardner
Erik Erikson
“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.“
-Erik Erikson