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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

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
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
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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Aggressive Comfort Conscious Floor Freely Good Know Movement Sense Space Unencumbered
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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Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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Along Always Antiquate Conceive Education Knowledge Line Transmission
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
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
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Child Correctness Educational Happiness One Procedure Test
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
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
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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Affection Character Conviction Faithful Man Own Persistent Word
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
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
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
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
An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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Being Every Full Insect Intelligence Mind Unconscious

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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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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