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.
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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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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.
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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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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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