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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

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
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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Always Away Custodian Honour Human Man Morality Respect Sentiment Woman Yield
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
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good
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
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
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Capacity Derive Desire Must Natural Observe Phenomena Techar
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
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 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
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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Aggressive Comfort Conscious Floor Freely Good Know Movement Sense Space Unencumbered
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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Abit Book Combination Concern Follow Language Mute Operation Read Sound
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Child Feel Help never Succeed
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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All Brotherhood Child Garden Mankind Men Obstacle Olay Over Transform Whole
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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Allow Bone Children Desist Rise Simply Sit Try Twist Write

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