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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

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Antiquate Conceive Education Knowledge Line Transmission
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 respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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Duly Inalienable Maternity Position Protection Raise Respect Social Women
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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Begin Child Elementary Express Language Make Rudimentary Think Work
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
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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Acompishm Nature Character Child Creation Difficult Indeed Most Small Spontaneous
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 discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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Being Develop Discover Education Human Natural Process Something Spontaneous Teach
The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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Acquisition Hope Knowledge Line Little Made Such Transmission
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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Call Invent Method Montessori True
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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Almost Case Exert Fairy Fantastic Hero Machinery Power Tale Through Tremendous
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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Animal Applym Study Branch Natual Producer Science Selfness Zoology
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
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
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
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task

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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