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“He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.”

Children Doe Individual Social Causes Saws Independent Institutions Unhappiness Permit Social Institutions Proper Time

Book:Married

Source: Married

“May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times?”

May Children Real Effects Danger Emotional Independent Ancient Suspects Superstitions Savages Vague

Book:Charles Darwin: An Anthology

Source: Charles Darwin: An Anthology

“The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.”

Mind Mean Children Body Independent Independence Mind And Body

Author:Maria Montessori

“We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.”

Giving Children Action Independent Independence Workers Active

Author:Maria Montessori

“Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.”

Children Aim Independent Independence Tendencies

Author:Maria Montessori

“The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he finds in his path. A vital force is active within him, and this guides his efforts towards their goal. It is a force called the 'horme', by Sir Percy Nunn.”

Firsts Children Force Goal Effort Path Overcoming Independent Independence Obstacles Active Guides Developing Conquest Introduction

Author:Maria Montessori

“The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.”

Children Natural Steps Development Independent Independence Conquest

Author:Maria Montessori

“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.”

World Needs Children Persons Might Faces Form Mother Next Born Psychology Baby Personality Birth Function Independent Urges Conquest Womb Absorbing Bodily Functions

Author:Maria Montessori

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

Mean Children Environment Independent

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

“I do not believe the promises of the Declaration of Independence are just for the strong, the independent, the healthy. They are for everyone-including unborn children. We are a society with enough compassion and wealth and love to care for both mothers and their children, to seek the promise and potential in every life.”

“There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.”

Children Might Able Existence Example Independent Accomplishment Aggression Intriguing Small Child Sense Of Accomplishment Libido

Author:Peter Gay

“I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.”

Thinking Children Courses Parent Teach Economy Too Much Taught Pride Originals Independent Arrogance Courageous Submission Avarice Timidity Imitator

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.”

Firsts May Children Individual Liberty Activity Independent Independence Active Manifestation Individual Liberty Practical Life

Book:The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

“The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.”

Firsts Children Environment Growing Adults Aim Independent Prepared Montessori Growing Children

Book:HER LIFE AND WORK

Source: HER LIFE AND WORK