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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!

Maria Montessori

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
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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Acquire Action Arrive Develop Equilibrium Free Freely Master Move Naturally Person Quickly Spiritual
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
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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Always Away Custodian Honour Human Man Morality Respect Sentiment Woman Yield
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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Begin Child Elementary Express Language Make Rudimentary Think Work
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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Being Child Empty Fill Him Not Own Whatever With
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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Age Already Child Education Foundation Help Human Lead Need Personality Special Three Year
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Acompishm Nature Character Child Creation Difficult Indeed Most Small Spontaneous
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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Almighty Fault Human Limitation Logic Logical Way
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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Adolescent Child Must never Stage Surpassed Treat
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
Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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Against Another Begin Bomb Conquer Day Distant Explosion Fall Instantaneous Stone Template
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold

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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