Loris Malaguzzi

“What children learn does not follow as a direct result of what is taught, rather, it is in large part due to the children’s own doing, as a consequence of their activities and our resources.”

“Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch each other.”

“Our task is to help children communicate with the world using all their potential, strengths, and languages, and to overcome any obstacle presented by our culture.”

“Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known.”

“The environment should act as an aquarium which reflects the ideas, ethics, attitudes and culture of the people who live in it.”

“We need to be more skilled at listening to children, and to ourselves, to be more skilled at seeing what is not immediately visible.”

“The child has a hundred languages (and a hundred hundred hundred more) but they steal ninety-nine.”

“Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from what you imagined.”

“The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences.”

“The one hundred languages is a metaphor for the extraordinary potentials of children, their knowledge-building and creative processes.”

“Children have a right to be protagonists of their own learning.”