“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato     “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato     “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato     “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato     “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” ― Plato…

“Life calls the tune, we dance.” ― John Galsworthy         “It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” ― John Galsworthy       “Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call…

“When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.’”—maria montessori     “The child who concentrates is immensely happy.” —maria montessori     “At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.” —maria montessori     “The hand is the instrument of intelligence. The child needs to manipulate objects and to gain experience by touching and…