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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.

Maria Montessori

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
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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Acquire Action Arrive Develop Equilibrium Free Freely Master Move Naturally Person Quickly Spiritual
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Child Free Him Into Potential Transform Will World
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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Accompany Course During Education Life Necessary Protection Realize Whole
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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All Ignorable Nobel Thing Without Work
The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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Children Duty Hygenistic Material More Mother Nourish Impact Own Physicologivcal Prescribe Principle Suck
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Child Concentrate Happy Immensely
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
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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Appreciate Capable Enmourous Factor Feel Fewel Human Joy Love Other Production Soul Value
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
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Activity Child Confound Does Educator Evil Good Immobility See Task
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
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
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
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 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

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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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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