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 MONTESSORIEducation is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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