Mark Finney on mon 15 jul 02
This is posted amongst all the papers, ideas, questions and love notes in
my studio.
The Hundred Languages of Children
Reggio Emilia Italia
No way.
The hundred is there.
The child
is made of one hundred.
The Child has
a hundred languages
a hundred hands
a hundred thoughts
a hundred ways of thinking
of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always a hundred
ways of listening
of marveling of loving
a hundred joys
for singing and understanding
a hundred worlds
to invent
a hundred worlds
to dream
The child has
a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
but they steal ninety-nine.
The school and the culture
separate the head from the body.
They tell the child:
to think without hands
to do without head
to listen and not speak
to understand without joy
to love and to marvel
only at Easter and Christmas.
They tell the child:
to discover the world already there
and of the hundred
they steal ninety-nine.
They tell the child:
that work and play
reality and fantasy
science and imagination
sky and earth
reason and dream
are things
that do not belong together
And thus they tell the child
that the hundred is not there.
The child says:
No way. The hundred is there.
Loris Malaquzzi-
PS: For all of you who helped me figure out how to "Digest It" I thank you
- I'm a typewriter in a computer world.
Sandi Finney
Hole Pottery
Indianapolis, In
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