Maria Montessori Quotes About Universe
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We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.
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It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
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Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
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The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?
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We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.
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If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.
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