Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
MARIA MONTESSORIPersonal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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