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centered. No matter what we touch, an atom, or a cell, we cannot explain it without knowledge of the wide universe.'

They are all the writings of Maria Montessori from her book 'To Educate the Human Potential,' first published in 1948.

So what has really changed in the last fifty years? Today we are dazzled by science and technology, instant global communications, and yet we find that it is still most important to excite the imaginations of a student with a fresh new way of looking at something, or a novel idea.

In the final analysis, whether in the space program, the discovery of DNA, the study of cell death, the composing of a new opera, or the formulation of a brilliant new business plan, there is a simple formula for success; enrich a motivated, absorbent mind. Then anything is possible.

Thank you... and again, congratulations USD, you are a guiding star in a prestigious educational sky."


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