For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk . . . What it does mean is to be taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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