Famous Quotes

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."

Maria Montessori on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Maria Montessori

• "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."

• "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."

• "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

• "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

• "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."