When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
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Shannon L. Alder
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
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Emma Donoghue
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own, " he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine."" Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.
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Shannon Hale
Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.
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Criss Jami
The worst thing in life is having parents that always stand against you and never with you. They discourage you, instill fear in you, hold you back, push you down and never encourage you to fly forward. When I have kids, they'll already be born...
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Suzy Kassem
More Quotes By Maria Montessori
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.
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.
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.