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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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The 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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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