Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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The 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.
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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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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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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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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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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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