The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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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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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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