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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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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 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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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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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