Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
MARIA MONTESSORI
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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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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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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When 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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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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 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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