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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.

Maria Montessori

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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Acquire Action Arrive Develop Equilibrium Free Freely Master Move Naturally Person Quickly Spiritual
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Correctness Educational Happiness One Procedure Test
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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Call Invent Method Montessori True
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Abit Book Combination Concern Follow Language Mute Operation Read Sound
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!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Anthology Expression Form Part Province Psychology Some Study
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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Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Dependence Feckless Hang Love Man Mother Patriotism Point Son Weak
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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Acquisition Hope Knowledge Line Little Made Such Transmission
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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Aggressive Comfort Conscious Floor Freely Good Know Movement Sense Space Unencumbered
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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Being Develop Discover Education Human Natural Process Something Spontaneous Teach
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adolescence Chief Creative Expectation Need State Strengthening Symptom Tendency Toward Work
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Allow Bone Children Desist Rise Simply Sit Try Twist Write

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