Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
MARIA MONTESSORISuddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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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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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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