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.
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.
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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 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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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