This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
MARIA MONTESSORINoble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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