When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
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.
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.
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.
I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?
But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.