The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORIIt is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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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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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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