If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORIAt 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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 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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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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