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We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. — Lloyd Alexander
To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves ... and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. — John Holt
The key is curiosity, and it is curiosity, not answers that we model. As we seek to know more about a child, we demonstrate the acts of observing, listening, questioning and wondering. When we are curious about a child's words and our responses to those words, the child feels respected. The child is respected. "What are the ideas that I have that are so interesting to the teacher? I must be somebody with good ideas." — Vivian Paley
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I guess, these people are right.It's important to respect childrens as persons to find a way to them and not to feel superior.
hi karin! yes, i think that children get tired of being surrounded by adults who are experts on everything. they love knowing things we don't know. we insist on always staying in front of them, always deciding what they are old enough/smart enough to learn, always writing their curriculum, then wonder why it's so hard to engage them. what's the point, if we grown-ups always know more?