The Great Connections Seminar

The Great Connections Seminar
Discussing ethics

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Parallels of Fire

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."

          William Butler Yeats


 “The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a  fertile field in which seeds may be  sown, to grow under the heat of flaming  imagination.  Our aim is not only to  make the child understand, and still  less to force him to memorize, but so  to touch his imagination as to enthuse  him to his innermost core. We do not  want complacent pupils, but eager ones.  We seek to sow life in children, rather than theories, to help them in their intellectual, emotional, and physical growth, and for that we must offer  them grand and lofty ideas to explore.”


             Maria Montessori

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