The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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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.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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 maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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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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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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