The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
MARIA MONTESSORINow, 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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!
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It 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.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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 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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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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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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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