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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Maria Montessori

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
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
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
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
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
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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Being Child Empty Fill Him Not Own Whatever With
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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Adult Call Child Conscious Mind Out Posses Type
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
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
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
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
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
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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Child Development Experiment Kind Labirtatry Man Observe Phenomenal Physical Possible Psygeogentetic Relation Scientific Specific
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Children Geography Get Insect Natural Science Stories Story Travel
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

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