If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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 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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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