The child
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The child has
A hundred languages
A hundred hands
A hundred thoughts
A hundred ways of thinking
Of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always a hundred
Ways of listening of marveling of loving
A hundred joys
For singing and understanding
A hundred worlds
To discover
A hundred worlds
To invent
A hundred worlds
To dream
The child has
A hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
But they steal ninety-nine.
The school and the culture
Separate the head from the body.
They tell the child;
To think without hands
To do without head
To listen and not to speak
To understand without joy
To love and to marvel
Only at Easter and Christmas
They tell the child:
To discover the world already there
And of the hundred
They steal ninety-nine.
They tell the child:
That work and play
Reality and fantasy
Science and imagination
Sky and earth
Reason and dream
Are things
That do not belong together
And thus they tell the child
That the hundred is not there
The child says: NO WAY the hundred is there--
by Loris Malaguzzi
traslated by: Lella Gandini
It is interesting poem of hundred languages of childhood. I really like the quote, “The child has A hundred languages A hundred hands A hundred thoughts” Children are curiosity seekers, so they are very unique. Children have different point of view than adults. A scientific research demonstrates that children literally see things differently than adults do. “Children really do see the world differently to adults, inasmuch as their perceptions seem to be more variable. No wonder they can not look at a cloud without seeing a dog or a bear” (Stone, 2010)
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Stone, P. Nov 2010, Children and Adults have different views on things, Soft-pedal, Children-and-Adults-Have-Different-Views-on-Things -163985.shtml
Thanks for your comment. As educators we have a huge responsibility to honour children as we listen and learn how they make meaning of the world around them. We can only attempt to interpret the child's world when we begin with a positive, strong view of the child as being capable and competent.
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