"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child." ― Maria Montessori Topic(s): Respect More From Maria Montessori "The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’" "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry." "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon." More In Respect "Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them."― Alain de Botton "House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it’s not good at all."― Chris Lowe "A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."― Mikhail Bakunin