No way' The hundred is there'

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No way. The hundred is there.

• By Loris Malaguzzi
• translated by Lella Gandini (1990)

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The child is made of one hundred.
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The child has a hundred languages
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A hundred hands
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A hundred thoughts
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A hundred ways of thinking
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Of playing, of speaking.
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A hundred always a hundred
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Ways of listening
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Of marveling, of loving
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A hundred joys
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For singing and understanding
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A hundred worlds to discover
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A hundred worlds to invent
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A hundred worlds to dream.
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The child has a hundred languages
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(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
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but they steal ninety-nine.
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The school and the culture
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Separate the head from the body.
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They tell the child
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To think without hands
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To do without head
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To listen and not to speak
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To understand without joy
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To love and to marvel
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Only at Easter and Christmas.
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They tell the child
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To discover the world already there
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And of the hundred
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They steal the ninety-nine.
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They tell the child
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That work and play
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Reality and fantasy
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Science and imagination
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Sky and earth
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Reason and dream
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Are things that do not belong together.
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And thus they tell the child
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That the hundred is not there.
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The child says
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No way. The hundred is there.
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No way. The hundred is there.

• By Loris Malaguzzi
• translated by Lella Gandini (1990)

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