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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.

Maria Montessori

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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Characteristics Degree Hand Highest Human
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
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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Anthology Expression Form Part Province Psychology Some Study
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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Age Earliest Even Feeling Find Greatest Independent Man Notice Satisfaction Surprise
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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Beauty Control Health Life Natural Person Related Worship
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Adapt Condition Education Himself Life Man Organisation Self Work
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
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
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
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Betterment Education Every Childhood Society
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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Acquisition Hope Knowledge Line Little Made Such Transmission
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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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Anything Babyhood Every Language Learn Old One Speak
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Achieve Care Development First Great Greatest Life Taken Year

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