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• ‟ Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

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• ‟ We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

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• ‟ We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

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• ‟ When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

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• ‟ Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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• ‟ Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

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• ‟ 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 man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

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• ‟ Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.

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• ‟ Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.

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• ‟ If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

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• ‟ Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!

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• ‟ We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

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• ‟ At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

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