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It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians. . . were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U. S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.

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Maria Montessori

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence. . . Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

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The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

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The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

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Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

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Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

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There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

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