To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORIObservation, 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!
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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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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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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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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 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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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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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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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