We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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 task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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 by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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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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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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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