Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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.
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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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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 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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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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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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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