For instance, through the response which is made to the child’s instinctive babblings the child comes to know what those babblings mean; they are transformed into articulate language and thus the child is introduced into the consolidated wealth of ideas and emotions…
Consciousness itself arises, writes Mearleau-Ponty, in the realization that “I am able” meaning the realization that one can reach beyond the immediate…
The primary word is not a straightforward symbol for a concept but rather an image, a picture, a mental sketch of a concept, a short tale about it—indeed, a small work of art…
In accordance with a simple, necessary, and self-conditioned law of life, the development of the child proceeds from a definite, invisible, unchangeable, implicit unity, which is in harmony with a corresponding unity in the cosmos…
word = work = praxis
sacrifice of action = verbalism
sacrifice of reflection = activism
The aim is an inner one, namely, that the child train himself to observe; that he be led to make comparisons between objects, to form judgments, to reason and to decide…
If the act of thinking is itself motor, its expression is somewhat attenuated in adults…
It is important that you yourself try to develop the letter in a meaningful way out of the drawing element…
The person has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts…
