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" The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature. "

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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. "

Maria Montessori

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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. "

" Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased. "

" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean. "

" If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. "

" The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. 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. "

" 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. "

" Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp. "

" The child who concentrates is immensely happy. "

" Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. 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. "

" 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. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it. "

" The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth. "

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

" If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. "

" The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. "

" 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. "

" The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man. "

" With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit. "

" The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. "

" Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. "

" The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections. "

" 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. "

" 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. "