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| "I rub and rub. See, the leaf is saying hello." |
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| flower in a puddle on a rainy day |
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
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| Self portrait |
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;
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| "Bus on muddy mountain. Ha!" |
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
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| "Smell how kind Mrs. Linder's flower is!" |
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--
Loris Malaguzzi
Founder of the Reggio Approach
The Hundred Languages of children is a phrase used by Reggio educators as they refer to the many natural modes of expression children use to communicate their understanding of the world. In Reggio practice these ways include words, movement, drawing, painting, building sculpting, shadow play, collage, dramatic play, and music. "The Hundred Languages of Children" is also a extraordinary exhibit that travels around the world as a living documentation of the Reggio Emilia Approach.
Founder of the Reggio Approach
The Hundred Languages of children is a phrase used by Reggio educators as they refer to the many natural modes of expression children use to communicate their understanding of the world. In Reggio practice these ways include words, movement, drawing, painting, building sculpting, shadow play, collage, dramatic play, and music. "The Hundred Languages of Children" is also a extraordinary exhibit that travels around the world as a living documentation of the Reggio Emilia Approach.
