If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORIAt three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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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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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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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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