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“It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy.”

Book:The 1946 London Lectures

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The 1946 London Lectures

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Maria Montessori

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

“In adolescence I searched diligently—even dangerously—for some sheet-music kind of love that would fulfil the erotic dreams the literature read to me in my childhood had coloured so romantically. In this fantasy I would be the cherished object of some great man's total preoccupation. In return I would become his perfumed slave. Of course I was willing to adopt this attitude of abject prostration only before someone who never asked me to do anything I didn't like.”

Love Romance Sex Sexuality Adolescence Homosexuality

Book:The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant

“In normal love the emphasis was not on the sexual organs. The relationship was a clash or a union of personalities laid bare by sexual passion. Between two men it consists of each using the utmost force of his personality to gain access to the sexual organs of the other.”

Sex Sexuality Homosexuality Heterosexuality

Book:The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant

“Staring at the front of people's trousers is, after a time, even less rewarding than gazing into their eyes. As the appeal of any pastime weakens, the habit of it strengthens.”

Sex Sexuality Unhappiness Homosexuality Promiscuity

Book:The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant