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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?

Maria Montessori

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
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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All Ignorable Nobel Thing Without Work
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
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
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
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
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
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
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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Dependence Feckless Hang Love Man Mother Patriotism Point Son Weak
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
Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Child Exception Indifference Patient Previous Sensitive Suddenly Suffer
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
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
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
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Child Concentrate Happy Immensely
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

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