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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.

Maria Montessori

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
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
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
This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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Activity Age Child Develop Freely Language Movement Must Safeguard
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
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.
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Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
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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Almost Case Exert Fairy Fantastic Hero Machinery Power Tale Through Tremendous
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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Attention Child Control Education Entire Problem Solve
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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Abit Book Combination Concern Follow Language Mute Operation Read Sound
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
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
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
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
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
The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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Better Command Create Ensure Ever Harmon Hiden Life Obey Purpose World

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