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 MONTESSORIThe 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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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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 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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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