It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
MARIA MONTESSORIDependence 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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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 teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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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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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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