"Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing……" — Maria Montessori
"Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists."
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- Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. — Maria Montessori
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- The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace. — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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- To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The… — Ralph Bunche
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- The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace. — Thomas Jefferson
- Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is. — Kofi Annan
- War: A by-product of the arts of peace. — Ambrose Bierce
256 Quotes by Maria Montessori
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- To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
- Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
- Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been…
- Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the…
- Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human…
- Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective…
- Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but…
- The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
- We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker…
- Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
- Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
- By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being,…
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