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.
Maria Montessori
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- We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
- Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
- 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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