The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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