It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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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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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.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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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