One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORIEstablishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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