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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Maria Montessori

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Child Correctness Educational Happiness One Procedure Test
Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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Capable Conquer Environment Every Formidable Found Great Man Mean Obstacle Theorsim
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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Become Child Go Language Mental Merely Place Race
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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Begin Child Elementary Express Language Make Rudimentary Think Work
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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Activity Age Child Develop Freely Language Movement Must Safeguard
An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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Being Every Full Insect Intelligence Mind Unconscious
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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Adolescence Chief Creative Expectation Need State Strengthening Symptom Tendency Toward Work
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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Await Birth Child Soul Successive We
Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Child Exception Indifference Patient Previous Sensitive Suddenly Suffer
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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Children Interset Many Myself Study Three Upward Year
The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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Acquisition Hope Knowledge Line Little Made Such Transmission
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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Art Artistic Attention Considerable Education Gemara Only Reason Recommended Space Teacher Training
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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Appreciate Capable Enmourous Factor Feel Fewel Human Joy Love Other Production Soul Value
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good

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