The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORIOnce we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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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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.
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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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 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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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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