It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
MARIA MONTESSORINow, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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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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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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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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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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