Saturday, November 27, 2004

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'Titles of exhibits, too, are subject to unforeseen
events and difficulties in surviving. The original title of this
exhibit was "If the eye leaps over the wall." The idea behind
this title was that the eye (the mind, pedagogy, the education
of a child) really begins to see, to reason and to renew itself
only to the extent that it is able to leap over a "wall" - the
wall of the banal and the rhetorical, the wall of conformity and
official inertia and reticence. No doubt we were all presumptuous,
including the children, but the choice was certainly worth the
risk. One day, however, the exhibit traveled to a certain country
in Europe and we discovered that the title simply could not
be decently or coherently translated. So the exhibit was
given a new title, which is the current one:
"The Hundred Languages of Children".
(Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children)



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