One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORIOnce we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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