Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do...

martes, 9 de marzo de 2010

Los 100 lenguajes del niño



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 invent
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 at 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.

Loris Malaguzzi
(Transaltion by Lella Gandini)

1 comentario:

Davilillo dijo...

ya te digo!!! para saber quien coño somos, dbemos comprender las palabras que has escrito.... y no me refiero al inglés! :)
hay que asimilar hasta la última célula, que estámos moldeados por la cultura que nos rodea. Cuando esto pase, puede que seamos un poco más libres, no te parece?

Un abrazo Ada Patón!!! (y si vienes por jaén da un toque niña, vivimos en el mismo sitio!!!)