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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.

Maria Montessori

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Children Geography Get Insect Natural Science Stories Story Travel
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Child Free Him Into Potential Transform Will World
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
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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Adult Call Child Conscious Mind Out Posses Type
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
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
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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Activity Intellectual Need Realize Understanding Value
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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Await Birth Child Soul Successive We
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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Anthology Expression Form Part Province Psychology Some Study
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
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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Aid Balance Basic Educator Free However Learn Life Position Task Upright
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Create Give Mean Observe Power Say
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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Age Earliest Even Feeling Find Greatest Independent Man Notice Satisfaction Surprise
The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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Guide Passion Raed Short Single Start Subject Teacher Varied
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?
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Along Always Antiquate Conceive Education Knowledge Line Transmission
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

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