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.
MARIA MONTESSORIFree the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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.
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