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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.

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
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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Appreciate Capable Enmourous Factor Feel Fewel Human Joy Love Other Production Soul Value
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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Dependence Feckless Hang Love Man Mother Patriotism Point Son Weak
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Constitute Develop Draw Human Individual Intelligence Manifestation Prepare Wonderful
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
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
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
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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Children Interset Many Myself Study Three Upward Year
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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Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
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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Child Development Experiment Kind Labirtatry Man Observe Phenomenal Physical Possible Psygeogentetic Relation Scientific Specific
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
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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Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
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
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
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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Characteristics Degree Hand Highest Human

The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.

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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.

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