One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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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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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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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 development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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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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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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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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 consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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