This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
MARIA MONTESSORISuddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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 study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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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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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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