The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf 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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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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.
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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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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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