Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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At 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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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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 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 person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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