Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORISpeech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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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.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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To 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.
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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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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 acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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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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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