Quotes from Sandra Joseph

I WANT EVERYONE to understand that no book and no doctor is a substitute for one's own sensitive contemplation and careful observations. Books with their ready-made formulas have dulled our vision and slackened the mind. Living by other people's experiences, research, and opinions, we have lost our self-confidence and we fail to observe things for ourselves.

A POET IS SOMEONE who is very happy and very sad, who is quick to anger and who loves intensely, who feels strongly. Children are like that, too. A philosopher is someone who is very observant, who ponders and wants to know how things really are. Children are like that, too.

To study in order to know? No. To study in order to know more? No. I think it is to study in order to ask more and more questions.

When is the proper time for a child to start walking?" Korczak asks in these pages. "When she does. When should her teeth start cutting? When they do. How many hours should a baby sleep? As long as she needs to.