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.
MARIA MONTESSORISpeech 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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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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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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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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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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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