To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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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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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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If 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.
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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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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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.
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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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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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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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.
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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.
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