"Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding."

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Source : Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

Maria Montessori

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“I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.”
“So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.”
“A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.”
“Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.”
“If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.”
“Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.”
“Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.”
“Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.”

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