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" The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity. "
Maria Montessori
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" 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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" The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference. "
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" If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. "
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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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" The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos. "
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" 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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" To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. "
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" The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child. "
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" The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! "
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" Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. 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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" All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses. "
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" 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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" We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. "
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" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other. "
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" Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life. "
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