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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

Maria Montessori

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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Capable Conquer Environment Every Formidable Found Great Man Mean Obstacle Theorsim
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
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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Accord Adult Ancient Child Fashion Growth Human Oatternm Require Persist Personality Progressive Society Superficial Unalter
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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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Anything Babyhood Every Language Learn Old One Speak
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
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
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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Children Interset Many Myself Study Three Upward Year
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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Allow Bone Children Desist Rise Simply Sit Try Twist Write
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
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
There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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Activity Intellectual Need Realize Understanding Value
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
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
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Concentrate Happy Immensely

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

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