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Quote by Maria Montessori

“The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.”

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Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator, is known as the father of modern education. Born on August 31, 1870, in Ancona, Italy, she passed away on May 6, 1952. Dr. Montessori achieved remarkable success in the medical field, but she is most famous for her creation of the Montessori educational method, which emphasizes child-centered learning and individualized education. more

“Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.”

Years Firsts Done Speak Walks Steps Path Intelligent Independent Independence Complexes Significant Impressive Converses Years Of Life

Author:Maria Montessori

“... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.”

Mind Firsts Mean Doe Law Given Environment Development Demand Independent Environmental Likes Collaboration Provision Obedient Decree

Author:Maria Montessori

“Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.”

Men Whole Character Able Depends Aim Independent Mastery Aim Of Education

Author:Maria Montessori

“Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.”

Firsts Children Two Law Serious Development Activity Understood Adults Independent Independence Fundamentals Urges Obliged

Author:Maria Montessori

“If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?”

Ifs May Security Pounds Parliament 4th Of July Nineteen

Author:Richard Henry Lee

“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.”

Source: An Additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican, leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention: to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Oberservations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot

“What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.”

Wish Interest Business Honor Succeed Abandon Commerce

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.”

Men Want Littles Strong Business Commerce Strong Man Little Man

Author:Theodore Dreiser

“The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'”

People Business British Usual Commerce Maxims

Author:Winston Churchill

“Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.”

Bigs Enjoy Business Democracy Dangerous Ought Privilege Corporations Commerce Inflation Big Business Exemption Big Corporations

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson