There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
MARIA MONTESSORIAll work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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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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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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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 greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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