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.
MARIA MONTESSORIFree the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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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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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, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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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