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Absorbent Mind

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29 March 2022

Children have an absorbent mind. They absorb knowledge from the environment without fatigue. [...] This is the moment in the life of man when we can...

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27 March 2022

A child can only acquire the words he hears spoken around him. This is not teaching but absorption. The child is, by nature, hungry for words; he...

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13 March 2022

The absorption of the environment is an intellectual activity. It is a psychic necessity that the child explores the environment; it satisfies his...

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22 January 2022

The child must construct his adaptation to his environment from the beginning of his life. This adaptation is developed by the child taking in...

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16 December 2021

We must, for this reason, take great care in this early period when nothing shows in the external life. If anything is lacking in these first two...

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15 December 2021

The newborn child can do nothing alone. He has to be carried into the environment. If he is left alone, he cannot develop, but if he is brought into...

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1 December 2021

The child’s type of mind is an absorbing mind; it absorbs whatever is around it. An adult’s mind elaborates. We call the child’s mind the absorbent...

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13 November 2021

Certainly it is a new task that confronts us, to study and take into account the needs of this absorbent mind. It is to respond to these needs that...

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5 November 2021

If you consider this absorbent mind in relation to language, you will understand how necessary it is to put a small child among people who speak well...

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4 November 2021

A marvellous fact is that this absorbent mind never feels fatigue. It is just like a camera: it clicks, and everything is there all of a sudden.

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