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 MONTESSORIIf 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.
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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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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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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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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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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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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