The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

Maria Montessori
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. - Martha Gellhorn

  2. Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. - Asa Don Brown

  3. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. - C.g. Jung

  4. How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole - C.g. Jung

  5. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - C.g. Jung

More Quotes By Maria Montessori
  1. Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

  2. Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

  3. To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

  4. The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

  5. 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.

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