The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
MARIA MONTESSORIThere is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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