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.
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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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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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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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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