We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
MARIA MONTESSORITo aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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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.
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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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!
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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