Ibnu Khaldun mengingatkan para pendidik melalui seruannya:
“…Sesungguhnya kekerasan dalam mendidik memberikan kesan yang buruk kepada orang yang dididik lebih-lebih lagi bagi kanak-kanak.Barangsiapa yang ditarbiah dengan cara kekerasan dan paksaan, maka akan sempitlah pemikiran dan jiwanya lalu jadilah anak itu hilang kecerdasannya, malas, terbawa-bawa kepada berbohong dan berkelakuan jahat…”
“ A child's work is to create the person she/he will become. Children are born with special mental powers which aid in the work of their own construction. But they cannot accomplish the task of self-construction without purposeful movement, exploration, and discovery of their environment - both the things and people within it. They must be given the freedom to use their inborn powers to develop physically, intellectually, and spiritually ”………..( Montessori Philosophy)
