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Asheville Montessori School
15 Julia Street
Asheville, North Carolina, 28801
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Asheville Montessori School
360 Weaverville Hwy.
Asheville, NC 28804
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828-254-6014
FAX: 828-254-4845
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828-645-3433
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It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind
of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student
acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling for values. He must acquire a vivid sense of the
beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise, he, with his specialized knowledge, more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow men and to the community. These precious things are conveyed to the younger generation not by textbooks. It is this that primarily constitutes and preserves culture. This is what I have in mind when I recommend the "humanities" as important…It is also vital to a valuable education that independent critical thinking be developed in the young human being, a development
that is greatly jeopardized by overburdening him with too much and with too varied subjects.
Overburdening necessarily leads to superficiality."
Albert Einstein, "Education for Independent Thought", New York Times, 10/5/52
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