The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
MARIA MONTESSORIJoy, 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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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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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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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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 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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