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.
MARIA MONTESSORISuddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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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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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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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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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 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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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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