There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
MARIA MONTESSORINoble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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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!
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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