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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

Maria Montessori

Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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Age Already Child Education Foundation Help Human Lead Need Personality Special Three Year
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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Always Away Custodian Honour Human Man Morality Respect Sentiment Woman Yield
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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All Ignorable Nobel Thing Without Work
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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Anthology Expression Form Part Province Psychology Some Study
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
The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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Guide Passion Raed Short Single Start Subject Teacher Varied
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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Almighty Fault Human Limitation Logic Logical Way
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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Characteristics Degree Hand Highest Human
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Activity Child Confound Does Educator Evil Good Immobility See Task
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Child Concentrate Happy Immensely
There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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Artistic Creation Development Draw Education Freedom Graduate Lead Spirit Technique
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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Duly Inalienable Maternity Position Protection Raise Respect Social Women
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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Consider Education General Lead System Way

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