The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
MARIA MONTESSORINoble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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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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