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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?

Maria Montessori

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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