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All about early childhood

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The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't try to make me grow up before my time… 

 Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~ James Russell Lowell

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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Babies are like little suns that, in a magical way, bring warmth, happiness and light into our lives. ~  Kartini Diapari-Oengider

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Connecting with nature allows us to feel restored

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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Life, 1967

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Friedrich Froebel coined the term kindergarten and believed in the role of the garden and nature in development. He believed that humans and nature are connected at a spiritual level.

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Now I see the secret of making the best persons, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. - Walt Whitman

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We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word. ~ Rudolf Steiner

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Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves. ~ Jean Piaget