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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.

Maria Montessori

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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Color Grade Hear Learn Paint Poetry See Write
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Create Give Mean Observe Power Say
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.
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All Brotherhood Child Garden Mankind Men Obstacle Olay Over Transform Whole
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Education Establish Last Peace Work
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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Affection Character Conviction Faithful Man Own Persistent Word
It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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Actually Adolescent Disgreated Greater Less Respect Show Treat Value
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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Being Develop Discover Education Human Natural Process Something Spontaneous Teach
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
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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Age Earliest Even Feeling Find Greatest Independent Man Notice Satisfaction Surprise
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
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
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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Attention Child Control Education Entire Problem Solve
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
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Constitute Develop Draw Human Individual Intelligence Manifestation Prepare Wonderful

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