If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORINever help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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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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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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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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