The Hundred Languages
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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the hundred languages
Taken from a poem by Loris Malaguzzi on how children learn.
Sometimes we need to ask ourselves how it is that we let our schools hamper our children's natural desire to learn.
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The child is made up of one hundred.
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The child has a hundred languages
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a hundred hands
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a hundred thoughts
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a hundred ways of thinking
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of playing
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ways of listening,
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a hundred worlds to invent,
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The child has a hundred languages
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and a hundred hundred more
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the school and the culture
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They tell the child to think without hands,
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to listen and not to speak,
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to understand without joy,
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They tell the child
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that work and play,
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reality and fantasy,
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science and imagination,
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are things that do not belong together.
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And thus they tell the child that the hundred is not there.
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But the child says,
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The hundred is there.
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