Maria Montessori Quotes

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?

Maria Montessori

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: August 31, 1870 - May 6, 1952

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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Jessica Savitch

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People feel like they know you because they've read about you, and people who don't know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, 'Oh, I love you.' It's odd, but it's really nice, too.

Jerry Hall

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When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Angelina Jolie

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I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

John T. Walton

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I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.

Amy Brenneman

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I love eating. Unfortunately, I have to be really determined and control my foodie temptations. That is the only thing I don't like about being an actress; the constant need to check my weight. Otherwise, I love my job!

Sonam Kapoor

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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Rod Serling

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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I never liked the glossiness of highly produced standup specials in general - I like it where it has more of a feel of the type of places I usually perform. It seems kind of weird when you do a special to go perform in a place unlike the place where you perform 95% of the time.

Matt Besser

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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

Douglas Coupland

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After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of victimisation in art, and I genuinely didn't think I had been victimised. Although I obviously believe in a lot of the feminist aspirations, I was wary about being dragged down by the politics of it.

Cornelia Parker

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Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Corbin Bernsen

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