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• The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil
  and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confuse good with immobility, and evil with activity....
• The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such
  and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual....
• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. -- Maria Montessori
• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality
  when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing...
• The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can.
  The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)...
• A seedy-looking individual with a large bag just wandered through the room.
  On the way, he quietly abstracted all valuables from the room and from your possession, mumbling something about, "Do unto others before....
• The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena.
  The teacher must understand and feel her position of observe...
• There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler than he is by nature.
  -- Henry Ward Beeche...
• Men must either be caressed or annihilated. They will revenge themselves for small injuries, but they can't do so for great ones.
  The harm the leader does must be such that he need not fear revenge. -- Niccolo Machiavelli...