Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORIIn 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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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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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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