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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.

Maria Montessori

The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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Adult Call Child Conscious Mind Out Posses Type
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
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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Aid Balance Basic Educator Free However Learn Life Position Task Upright
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
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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Animal Applym Study Branch Natual Producer Science Selfness Zoology
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Create Give Mean Observe Power Say
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 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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Adolescence Chief Creative Expectation Need State Strengthening Symptom Tendency Toward Work
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
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Human Intelligence Intelligent Life Manifest Marvellous People Person Spoken Word
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
We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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Cosmos Create Enjoy Evolve Only Order
No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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Builder Child Exist Formed Man Once
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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All Brotherhood Child Garden Mankind Men Obstacle Olay Over Transform Whole
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good

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