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.’
MARIA MONTESSORIPersonal 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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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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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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 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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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