The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe 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 are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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 respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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