One of our strengths has been to start out from a very clear, very open declaration of our ideas about the young child. It is a highly optimistic vision of the child: a child who possess many resources at birth, and with an extraordinary potential which has never ceased to amaze us; a child with the independent means to build up his own thought processes, ideas, questions and attempts at answers; with a high level of ability in conversing with adults, the ability to observe things and to reconstruct them in their entirety.
This is a gifted child, for whom we need a gifted teacher... a co-constructor of knowledge, values and understandings together with children; a cultured and curious person, which means an inveterate border crosser; and a researcher, with an enquiring and critical mind.
-Loris Malaguzzi
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