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Biography - François Fénelon:

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon. French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
Born: 1651 - Died: 1715
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Let a child play and mix instruction with play.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Laissez donc jouer un enfant, et mêlez l'instruction avec le jeu.

German
Lass also das Kind spielen und verbinde die Unterweisung mit dem Spiel.




See also 

See also...






Quotes for: education


Quotes

Quotes about education:


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.





All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.











Quotes for: game


Quotes

Quotes for: game


My work is a game, a very serious game.





For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.





Play is experimenting with chance.





Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.





A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.





This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it 'work', realize that this is play.







Quotes

Quotes for: child


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.











Quotes

François Fénelon also said...


Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.





Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.





A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.





War is an evil which dishonours mankind.





All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.





Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.












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