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.
MARIA MONTESSORIIt 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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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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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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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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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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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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?
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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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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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