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.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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 man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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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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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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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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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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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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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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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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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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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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