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.
MARIA MONTESSORINever help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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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 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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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