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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

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
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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Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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Color Grade Hear Learn Paint Poetry See Write
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Betterment Education Every Childhood Society
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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Adolescent Child Must never Stage Surpassed Treat
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Child Correctness Educational Happiness One Procedure Test
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
The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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Ability Color Movement Necessary Population Reality See
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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Attention Child Control Education Entire Problem Solve
Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Child Exception Indifference Patient Previous Sensitive Suddenly Suffer
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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Act Complete Educational Efficacious Help Life One Toward Unfold
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
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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Affection Character Conviction Faithful Man Own Persistent Word
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
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
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

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