"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."
-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."
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"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
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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."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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