"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."
-Maria Montessori
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"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.“
-Maria Montessori
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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?"
-Maria Montessori
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"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."
-Maria Montessori
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"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"
-Maria Montessori
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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."
-Maria Montessori
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"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
-Maria Montessori
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-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell
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