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.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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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 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 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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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