Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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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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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