1- All children are naturally motivated to learn and are
capable of learning.
2- Understanding and
developing the capacity for abstract thinking,reflection and work are the most important aspects of
learning.
3- Children learn in a variety
of ways-through experience, making
and doing things, experimentation, reading, discussion,
asking,
listening, thinking and reflecting, and expressing
oneself in speech
or writing both individually and with others. They require
opportunities of
all these kinds in the course of their development.
4- Teaching something before the
child is cognitively ready takes
away real learning. Children may ‘remember’
many facts but they
may not understand them or be able to relate them to the
world
around them.