The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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