“I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.” ThinkingChildrenDarknessSunWindListeningUselessLooking DownApaches Author:Geronimo
“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.” IfsMeanChildrenUseWould BeDiesLeftBornLibertyBabyGoodnessWasteOrganizationStructureUselessVainStarvationNourishmentCornerstones Book:Montessori's Own Handbook Source: Montessori's Own Handbook
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.” ChildrenLightSeemsGovernmentEyeFormValuesGamesSocialWaterMoralStudyJudgmentImportanceUselessDiscussionBehaviourSpontaneousMarbleForms Of GovernmentMoral ValuesMoral JudgmentDeep WaterEyes Of A Child Author:Jean Piaget
“For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.” MenHumansChildrenEndsHelpingMightOrderTurnsGrowthCommunityHuman BeingsPiecesProduceGoes OnValuableUselessAccomplishmentLastingDefiniteSequenceBeing MeHinderProcreation Book:Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925 Source: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925