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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.

Maria Montessori

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Anything Babyhood Every Language Learn Old One Speak
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Begin Child Elementary Express Language Make Rudimentary Think Work
No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Builder Child Exist Formed Man Once
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Behaviour Consciousness Dutyeducator Higher Human Love Make Really Social Teacher Transform
There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Activity Intellectual Need Realize Understanding Value
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Accompany Course During Education Life Necessary Protection Realize Whole
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.’
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Age Earliest Even Feeling Find Greatest Independent Man Notice Satisfaction Surprise
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Being Child Empty Fill Him Not Own Whatever With
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
MARIA MONTESSORI

Color Grade Hear Learn Paint Poetry See Write

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