If 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.
MARIA MONTESSORIOnce we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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 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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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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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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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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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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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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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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