Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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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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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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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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 development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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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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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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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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