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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Maria Montessori

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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Act Complete Educational Efficacious Help Life One Toward Unfold
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
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
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
It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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Actually Adolescent Disgreated Greater Less Respect Show Treat Value
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
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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Anything Babyhood Every Language Learn Old One Speak
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Betterment Education Every Childhood Society
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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Behaviour Consciousness Dutyeducator Higher Human Love Make Really Social Teacher Transform
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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Artistic Creation Development Draw Education Freedom Graduate Lead Spirit Technique
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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Color Grade Hear Learn Paint Poetry See Write
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
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
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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Become Child Go Language Mental Merely Place Race
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit

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