"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child." ― Maria Montessori Topic(s): Respect More From Maria Montessori "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." "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." "We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe,’ but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses." More In Respect "In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness."― Norman O. Brown "With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."― Richard Ben-Veniste "I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would’ve previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters."― Corin Nemec