Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORIHow can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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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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 child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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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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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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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 greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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