An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
MARIA MONTESSORITravel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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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.’
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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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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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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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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