The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
MARIA MONTESSORIOnce we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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 ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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