If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORIAt three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Now, 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.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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 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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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