No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf 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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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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