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The key with children is pragmatism. Those who have the chance to experience life with them, those who work or live with children, know that the best way to have them learn something is through play.
Children embody the closet form to nature in human beings, and this makes them extremely pragmatic and very, very simple minded.
This quality, simplicity, is crucial for their learning process. It actually enables them to experience the world, experience life, achievement after achievement, in the most faithful and “mechanistic” way.
A child won’t ask himself “Why can’t I open this jar?” but rather “How can I open this jar?” or “How does it work?”
This ensures that they’ll put themselves on the line, facing any challenge, and this necessarily implies personal growth.
The basic presupposition with children is that they’re pure potential.
The Timelight Method approaches children with endless faith and sense of possibility. It focuses mainly in showing them that:
“they actually can, they’re actually worth it, they actually can be successful in what they want”
Through games and different kinds of exercises, the child is able to grasp this reality first hand, and the growth process then is free to flow simply and naturally, just like the water of a river flows toward the sea.
With children, the most effective formula is: lots of practice, and not much theory.
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