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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

Maria Montessori

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
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Begin Child Elementary Express Language Make Rudimentary Think Work
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Children Geography Get Insect Natural Science Stories Story Travel
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Await Birth Child Soul Successive We
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Actually Adolescent Disgreated Greater Less Respect Show Treat Value
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Characteristics Degree Hand Highest Human
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Development Experiment Kind Labirtatry Man Observe Phenomenal Physical Possible Psygeogentetic Relation Scientific Specific
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Free Him Into Potential Transform Will World
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
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
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!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adolescence Chief Creative Expectation Need State Strengthening Symptom Tendency Toward Work
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Education Establish Last Peace Work

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