We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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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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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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