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Maria Montessori has 258 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as…
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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities…
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It…
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Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,…
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The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
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We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced…
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only…
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
— Alfred Adler
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound…
— Desmond Tutu
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You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means…
— Desmond Tutu
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Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves…
— Desmond Tutu
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In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of…
— Nelson Mandela
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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
— Desmond Tutu
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There is a word in South Africa - ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound…
— Barack Obama
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Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Compromise does not mean cowardice.
— John F. Kennedy
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Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being…
— Desmond Tutu
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