Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORIIt would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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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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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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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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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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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.
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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