{"id":7100,"date":"2012-01-27T17:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:07","slug":"the-hundred-languages-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2012\/01\/27\/the-hundred-languages-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred Languages of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The child is made of one hundred.<\/p>\n<p>The child has a hundred languages,<br \/>\na hundred hands,<br \/>\na hundred thoughts,<br \/>\na hundred ways of thinking, of playing, of speaking.<\/p>\n<p>A hundred, always a hundred,<br \/>\nways of listening,<br \/>\nof marveling,<br \/>\nof loving,<br \/>\na hundred joys for singing and understanding,<br \/>\na hundred worlds to discover,<br \/>\na hundred worlds to invent,<br \/>\na hundred worlds to dream.<br \/>\nThe child has a hundred languages (and a hundred hundred hundred more),<br \/>\nbut they steal ninety nine.<br \/>\nThe school and the culture separate the head from the body.<br \/>\nThey tell the child:<br \/>\nto think without hands,<br \/>\ndo without heads,<br \/>\nto listen and not to speak,<br \/>\nto understand without joy,<br \/>\nto love and to marvel\u2026 only at Easter and Christmas.<br \/>\nThey tell the child:<br \/>\nto discover the world already there and of the hundred they steal ninety nine.<br \/>\nThey tell the child:<br \/>\nthat work and play,<br \/>\nreality and fantasy,<br \/>\nscience and imagination,<br \/>\nsky and earth,<br \/>\nreason and dream,<br \/>\nare things that do not belong together.<br \/>\nAnd thus they tell the child that the hundred is not there.<br \/>\nThe child says no way. The hundred is there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Loris Malaguzzi, Italian Early Childhood Education Specialist, 1994<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,48,25,34,16,215,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-community","category-education","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-poetry","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}