If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORIWhen 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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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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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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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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