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

Maria Montessori

Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Child Exception Indifference Patient Previous Sensitive Suddenly Suffer
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
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
Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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Against Another Begin Bomb Conquer Day Distant Explosion Fall Instantaneous Stone Template
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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All Ignorable Nobel Thing Without Work
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
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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Characteristics Degree Hand Highest Human
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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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Being Child Empty Fill Him Not Own Whatever With
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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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Better Command Create Ensure Ever Harmon Hiden Life Obey Purpose 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
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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Being Every Full Insect Intelligence Mind Unconscious
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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Adolescent Child Must never Stage Surpassed Treat
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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Confidence Conscious Fill Help Know Make Mankind Many Nobel Oneself Soul Useful Wany

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