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 MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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 child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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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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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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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