Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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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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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 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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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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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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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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.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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