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.
MARIA MONTESSORIEarly childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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 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 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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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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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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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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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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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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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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