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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.

Maria Montessori

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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Appreciate Capable Enmourous Factor Feel Fewel Human Joy Love Other Production Soul Value
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Child Concentrate Happy Immensely
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
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
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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Development Expression Thought Language Mean Natural Personality Word
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Activity Child Confound Does Educator Evil Good Immobility See Task
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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Activity Intellectual Need Realize Understanding Value
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Education Establish Last Peace Work
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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Confidence Conscious Fill Help Know Make Mankind Many Nobel Oneself Soul Useful Wany
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
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Capacity Derive Desire Must Natural Observe Phenomena Techar

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