Thursday, August 9, 2012

Watch them.

“Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.”

― Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

Sounds a lot like Montessori.

1 comment:

Amy Appel said...

Susanne,
I am so, SO excited to find your beautiful and inspiring blog! Thank you for sharing yourself and your work with all of us--what a blessing!