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So we, who work toward one great end, are members of one and the same body...

"So we, who work toward one great end, are members of one and the same body; and those who come after us will reach the goal only because there were those who believed and laboured before them."  Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.6, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.

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