The Hundred Languages of Children

Looking at a messy book shelf, one the 'loose' pieces of gifts that you tucked at various ridges of your shelf or placed on top of books was narrowed in.
A bookmark with the poem of 'The Hundred Languages of Children' from this pioneer of the Early Childhood field in Italy.
This is one of sharings & gifts I received over these few years learning in the Early Childhood Education field.
Reggio Emilia,Italy would be a previlage to be at for an opporunity to learn even more how are we able to have an extended approach on how we can nurture our children.

My stint at the childcare centre will begin officially next monday, filled with so much things to do for our children, for administrative, for preparations,
I want my inner bridge to still stand strong&strengthen even under pressure
as these I build relationships with our children & teachers(:


The child
is made of one hundred.
The children 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 discover
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 to 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 te child
that the hundred is not there.
The child says:
No way. The hundred is there.

Loris Malaguzzi