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.
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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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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Joy, 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.
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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 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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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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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 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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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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