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.
MARIA MONTESSORIOnce we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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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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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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