It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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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 first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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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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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 teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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