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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

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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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Duly Inalienable Maternity Position Protection Raise Respect Social Women
An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has 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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Anthology Expression Form Part Province Psychology Some Study
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
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
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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Actually Adolescent Disgreated Greater Less Respect Show Treat Value
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
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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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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