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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.

Maria Montessori

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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adapt Condition Education Himself Life Man Organisation Self Work
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Basis Continous Marriage Ounded Parent Relation Reproduction Social Species Union Upon
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Almost Case Exert Fairy Fantastic Hero Machinery Power Tale Through Tremendous
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Human Intelligence Intelligent Life Manifest Marvellous People Person Spoken Word
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Attention Child Control Education Entire Problem Solve
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Betterment Education Every Childhood Society
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Capable Conquer Environment Every Formidable Found Great Man Mean Obstacle Theorsim
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confidence Conscious Fill Help Know Make Mankind Many Nobel Oneself Soul Useful Wany
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Affection Character Conviction Faithful Man Own Persistent Word
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold

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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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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