[PW] Re: Maria Montessori quote

[Winters, Murl]

On page v of the book Dennis Lien quotes below is:

"The child is father of the man."
			-- Wordsworth
"In the children lies the seed corn of the future."
			-- Froebel
"Who touches the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which
has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite
future.
"Who touches the child touches the delicate and vital point where all
can yet be decided, where all can be renewed, where all is pulsating
with life, where the secrets of the soul lie hid.
"To work consciously for the child and to go deep down, with the
tremendous intention of understanding him, would be to conquer the
secret of mankind, just as so many secrets of Nature have been conquered
in the world about us.
"The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression
of his vitality. But his activity is really the work he performs in
building up the man, it is the incarnating of the spirit."
			-- Montessori
"But Jesus said to them, 'Let the little children be, and do not hinder
them from coming to Me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.'"	
			-- Matt. Xix, 14

Murl Winters
Associate Library Director
Evangel University
Springfield, MO 65802

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Subject: [PW] Re: Maria Montessori quote

Google-in-the-book search shows this:

The Montessori Method: a revolution in education - Page v
by E. M. (E. Mortimer) Standing - 1962 - 209 pages
"Who touches the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which
has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite
future. ...
Snippet view

Can't get beyond the snippet view to see if there's a good citation
attached, and of our two copies of the book, one is in storage and
the other is on another campus.  Perhaps someone else who has the
book to hand can check it.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu


At 05:13 PM 11/20/2006, Janet Hack wrote:
>Hello fellow Wombats,
>
>Help needed finding the source of the following quote:
>
>    "Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive
>point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and
>climbs toward the infinite future."   Maria Montessori
>
>Professor would like to use this quote, but will not use it unless
>she can find the source for a proper citation.  I have searched
>bartleby.com, quotationspage.com, google and ask.com.  The quote is
>found on a number of websites, but with no source.
>
>Any help gratefully appreciated
>
>   - Janet
>
>--
>Janet Hack
>Reference Librarian
>Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
>University of Maryland, Baltimore County
>Tel: 410-455-8130; Fax: 410-455-1906
>e-mail: jhack at umbc.edu
>
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