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 MONTESSORIIt is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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 consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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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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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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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 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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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 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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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 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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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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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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