Personal 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.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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