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.
MARIA MONTESSORITo confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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 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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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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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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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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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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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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 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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