The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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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 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 first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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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.’
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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