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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

Maria Montessori

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
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
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
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
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.
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Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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Abit Book Combination Concern Follow Language Mute Operation Read Sound
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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Anthology Expression Form Part Province Psychology Some Study
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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Almighty Fault Human Limitation Logic Logical Way
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 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
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 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
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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Always Away Custodian Honour Human Man Morality Respect Sentiment Woman Yield

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