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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!

Maria Montessori

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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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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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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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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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