The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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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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