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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

Maria Montessori

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
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Acompishm Nature Character Child Creation Difficult Indeed Most Small Spontaneous
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Capacity Derive Desire Must Natural Observe Phenomena Techar
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
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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Development Expression Thought Language Mean Natural Personality Word
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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Beauty Control Health Life Natural Person Related Worship
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
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
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
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
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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Adolescent Child Must never Stage Surpassed Treat
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
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
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
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
We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Cosmos Create Enjoy Evolve Only Order

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

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