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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.

Maria Montessori

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
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
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
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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Characteristics Degree Hand Highest Human
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
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 intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Human Intelligence Intelligent Life Manifest Marvellous People Person Spoken Word
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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Aid Balance Basic Educator Free However Learn Life Position Task Upright
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Adapt Condition Education Himself Life Man Organisation Self Work
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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Act Complete Educational Efficacious Help Life One Toward Unfold
We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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Cosmos Create Enjoy Evolve Only Order
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
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
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
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

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