Quote by Maria Montessori
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happin

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. – Maria Montessori

Other quotes by Maria Montessori

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of mans future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individuals total development lags behind? – Maria Montessori

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Education
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. – Maria Montessori

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teacher
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. – Maria Montessori

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Try to put your happiness before anyone elses, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. – Margaret Cho

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Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. – Henry Van Dyke

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Happiness

No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Happiness

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think its an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. – Julie Christie

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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. – George Santayana

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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. – Herbert N. Casson

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