This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
MARIA MONTESSORIWhen you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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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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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 first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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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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