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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 (1870 - 1952)
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), December 11, 1964
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.: Jack London (1876 - 1916), Jack London's Tales of Adventure
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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