The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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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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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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