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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.

Maria Montessori

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Human Intelligence Intelligent Life Manifest Marvellous People Person Spoken Word
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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Guide Passion Raed Short Single Start Subject Teacher Varied
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
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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Attention Child Control Education Entire Problem Solve
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
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Adapt Condition Education Himself Life Man Organisation Self Work
At 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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Age Already Child Education Foundation Help Human Lead Need Personality Special Three Year
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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Duly Inalienable Maternity Position Protection Raise Respect Social Women
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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Await Birth Child Soul Successive We
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
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
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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Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
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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Achieve Care Development First Great Greatest Life Taken Year
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
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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Consider Education General Lead System Way
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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Acompishm Nature Character Child Creation Difficult Indeed Most Small Spontaneous
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Betterment Education Every Childhood Society
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
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Constitute Develop Draw Human Individual Intelligence Manifestation Prepare Wonderful
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Child Free Him Into Potential Transform Will World
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Create Give Mean Observe Power Say
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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All Ignorable Nobel Thing Without Work
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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Almighty Fault Human Limitation Logic Logical Way
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Children Geography Get Insect Natural Science Stories Story Travel
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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Abit Book Combination Concern Follow Language Mute Operation Read Sound

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