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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.

Maria Montessori

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!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Almost Case Exert Fairy Fantastic Hero Machinery Power Tale Through Tremendous
The 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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Children Duty Hygenistic Material More Mother Nourish Impact Own Physicologivcal Prescribe Principle Suck
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
MARIA MONTESSORI

All Ignorable Nobel Thing Without Work
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Children Geography Get Insect Natural Science Stories Story Travel
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Act Complete Educational Efficacious Help Life One Toward Unfold
We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Cosmos Create Enjoy Evolve Only Order
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Accord Adult Ancient Child Fashion Growth Human Oatternm Require Persist Personality Progressive Society Superficial Unalter
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Antiquate Conceive Education Knowledge Line Transmission
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Activity Child Confound Does Educator Evil Good Immobility See Task
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Children Interset Many Myself Study Three Upward Year
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon

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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