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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

Maria Montessori

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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Along Always Antiquate Conceive Education Knowledge Line Transmission
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
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
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Child Concentrate Happy Immensely
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
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
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
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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Achieve Care Development First Great Greatest Life Taken Year
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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All Ignorable Nobel Thing Without Work
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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Being Every Full Insect Intelligence Mind Unconscious
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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Aggressive Comfort Conscious Floor Freely Good Know Movement Sense Space Unencumbered
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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Builder Child Exist Formed Man Once
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

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