The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
MARIA MONTESSORI
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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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 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.
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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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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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