One test of the correctness of educational procedu... -Maria Montessori

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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori , Educator
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son....
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with ...
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her...
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war....
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men....
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?...
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in siz...
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed you...
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher conscious...
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of obse...

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While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck....
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But i...
Being married to your best friend, that's happiness....
Me, I've been lucky to be good at happiness....
While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime....
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, tha...
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and the...
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are....
Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your...