Sublime

There is no more effective way to prepare children for lives animated by love than to provide them with a loving childhood.

Seymour Papert,

Children need a balance of nurture and structure, and so do adults. In the process of learning to provide for our children, we need to learn better nurture and structure skills for ourselves as well.

Our most important job—to provide a calm, secure, and loving haven for our children as they go about the challenging business of growing up—has been utterly compromised.

l’action – soulignant l’importance de la main – et l’éveil sensoriel, à la suite de Locke, et, comme John Dewey (1859-1962) aux États-Unis, selon son principe Learning-by-doing, en suivant des « périodes sensibles », propices à certaines acquisitions (parler, écrire, lire, ranger, sérier, etc.), préfigurant ainsi les stades de développement de

Babies are similarly fascinated by causal relations between objects. Babies in the ribbon-and-mobile experiments actually get bored after a while with the spectacle of the mobile moving, but they don’t get bored with the sensation of their own power.

Piaget spent much of his eighty-four years striving to understand how children—and by extension, adults—develop an understanding of the world.

many parents do not plan exercises for their children,