SPRING HOLLOW EARLY LEARNING CENTER

NOTHING WITHOUT JOY!

The mission of Spring Hollow is to help nurture and raise loving, happy, and confident students in a safe, inviting and beautiful learning environment; through activities that encourage accepting, collaborative and creative expression.

                              4207 Arno Road, Franklin TN 37064  (MAP)                                                  615-794-9343

• HOME
• ABOUT US & STAFF
• CURRICULUM
  • GREEN CIRCLE
    • GREEN CIRCLE WORKSHOP AGENDA
    • GREEN CIRCLE SCRIPT
    • GREEN CIRCLE SONG
• ENVIRONMENT
• WORKSHOPS
• POLICIES
• TUITION
• RESOURCES
• FAQs
• STORE

The Hundred Languages of Children

by Loris Malaguzzi (translated by Lella Gandini)

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 discover
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 the child
that the hundred is not there.
The child says:
No way.
The hundred is there.