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.
MARIA MONTESSORIEarly childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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 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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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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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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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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 first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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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