The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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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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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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