The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
MARIA MONTESSORIWhen the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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