With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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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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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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The 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.
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