The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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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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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 are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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