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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.

Maria Montessori

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Development Experiment Kind Labirtatry Man Observe Phenomenal Physical Possible Psygeogentetic Relation Scientific Specific
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
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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Children Interset Many Myself Study Three Upward Year
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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Basis Continous Marriage Ounded Parent Relation Reproduction Social Species Union Upon
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
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 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
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Education Establish Last Peace Work
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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All Brotherhood Child Garden Mankind Men Obstacle Olay Over Transform Whole
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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Development Expression Thought Language Mean Natural Personality Word
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
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
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 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
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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Almost Case Exert Fairy Fantastic Hero Machinery Power Tale Through Tremendous
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

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.

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