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 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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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!
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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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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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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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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