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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with 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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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