The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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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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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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