Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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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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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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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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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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