No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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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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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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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.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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 social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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