Each one of us needs to be able to play with the
things that are coming out of the world of children.
(Malaguzzi)
An essential element for positive learning and teaching in the Reggio
Emilia approach is to view children and teachers as endowed with strong
potential, ready to enter into relationships, ready to be listened to, and
eager to learn. Once we value children and teachers this way, teaching cannot be done only through imparting information, but rather, it has to be an experience in which teachers and learners construct learning together.
(Lella Gandini)
We have to find each other in the forest and begin to discuss what the education of the child actually means. The important aspect is not just to promote the education of the child but the health and happiness of the child as well.
(Malaguzzi)
In Reggio the teacher is considered a researcher
along with the children, and the children’s relationship with each other,
with the teachers, and with the environment is also considered essential
in supporting learning.
(Lella Gandini)
We need to know how to recognize a new presence,
how to wait for the child.
(Malaguzzi)
Teachers observe the children in these possibility-rich environments, and on the basis of shared observations and documentations, they
construct new possibilities for the children.
(Lella Gandini)
Each one of us needs to have curiosity, and we need
to be able to try something new based on the ideas
that we collect from the children as they go along.
(Malaguzzi)
The real teacher,
in fact, lets nothing else be learned than-learning.
(Heidegger)
Life has to be somewhat agitated and upset, a bit
restless, somewhat unknown. As life flows with the
thoughts of the children, we need to be open, we
need to change our ideas; we need to be comfortable
with the restless nature of life.
(Malaguzzi)
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
and the one who is wise saves lives.
(Proverbs 11:30)
Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.
(Mark 3:35)
summed up in the word ‘seed’ , stars as seeds. the star-seeds will be linked with male and female milk
(Derrida)
And the renewed
wisdom itself ascends and settles on the head of the righteous that revive the
worlds, and then flies, soaring through 70,000 worlds, until it ascends to Atik,
the Sefira Keter. And all that exists in Atik is concealed, Supernal wisdom
(Zohar)
His work consists in reuniting the parts that have been separated
from the godhead—the Shekinah, God’s female immanence
, which has been wandering about in exile
—with God’s transcendence. Man’s power to accomplish this by his mystical actions, this great work, which is a creative effort in regard to both world and godhead, constitutes the priestly dignity of man—and in Jewish mysticism
, of the Jew.
(Eric Neumann)
Start the music! Beat the drum!
Play the sweet lyre and the lute!
4 (3) Sound the shofar at Rosh-Hodesh
and at full moon for the pilgrim feast,
(Tehillim 81:3-4)
A ring awakens on our finger, and the fingers are the ring itself … the ring of the carrier-pigeon … transports, transfers, or translates a coded message … it must return from the other place to the same one, that from which it came, completing a round trip … sign of belonging and alliance, and condition of return … a manifestation of an alliance. —
(Derrida)
The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness, which does not change. The mind must come to know the true Self/Atman and respect it and cease covering it up.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white with harvest.
(John 4:35)
There is such a thing as hearing without searching; as taking without inquiring as to who might be giving; and thought flashes forth like lightning, imposed as a necessity, under a definitive form: I have never had to choose. With such raptures, our too weary souls ease themselves, sometimes in a torrent of tears; mechanically we begin, and we speed up or slow down without realizing it; in such ecstasies we’re ravished from ourselves, and hundreds of delicate feelings crisscross, penetrating us down to our toes; in this abyss of felicity, horror and extreme suffering never appear as contraries of, but as results of, the glimmerings of such happiness, and as a hue that would necessarily suffuse the bottom of this ocean of light . . .
(Nietzsche)
His Self has touched the unconscious, the source of in-
finite possibilities. His is “no-mind.” Says St. Augustine, “Love
God and do what you will.” This corresponds to the poem of
Bunan, the Zen master of the seventeenth century:
While alive
Be a dead man.
Thoroughly dead;
And act as you will.
And all is good.
To love God is to have no self, to be of no-mind, to become “a
dead man,” to be free from the constrictive motivations of con-
sciousness. This man’s “Good morning” has no human element
of any kind of vested interest. He is addressed and he responds.
He feels hungry and eats. Superficially, he is a natural man,
coming right out of nature with no complicated ideologies of
modem civilized man. But how rich his inward life is Because
it is in direct communion with the great unconscious.
(D.T,Suzuki)
if we will not interfere with our thought , but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing and everything and every man> for the maker of all things and all persons stands behind us and casts his omniscience through us over things.
(Emerson)
We must
free childhood from repression that weighs upon it
(Montessori)
We may say that we become ourselves through others and that this rule applies not only to the personality as a whole, but also to the history of every individual function.
(Vygotsky)
Give us innocent water,
0pinions give us, with minds most faithful
To cross over and to return.
(Holderlin)
The precariousness of play belongs to the fact that it is always
on the theoretical line between the subjective and that which is
objectively perceived. It is my purpose here simply to give a reminder that children’s playing has everything in it,
(Winnicott)
The hallmarks of spirit are, firstly, the principle of spontaneous
movement and activity; secondly, the spontaneous capacity to produce
images independently of sense perception; and thirdly, the autonomous
and sovereign manipulation of these images.
(Jung)
Your way went through the sea,
your path through the turbulent waters;
but your footsteps could not be traced.
(Tehillim 77:20)
A glowing ember moved round and round quickly enough appears as a glowing circle. When the movement ceases, the ember remains. Similarly, the ‘I am’ in movement creates the world. The ‘I am’ at peace becomes the Absolute.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
By thy grace I remember my Light, and now gone is my delusion. My doubts are no more, my faith is firm; and now I can say ‘Thy will be done’ (Bhagavad Gita)
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
(John 3:8)
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