The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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 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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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