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.
MARIA MONTESSORIWith man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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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 ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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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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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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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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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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