If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
MARIA MONTESSORIIt 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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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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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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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