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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.

Maria Montessori

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Duly Inalienable Maternity Position Protection Raise Respect Social Women
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
MARIA MONTESSORI

Color Grade Hear Learn Paint Poetry See Write
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Abit Book Combination Concern Follow Language Mute Operation Read Sound
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Age Earliest Even Feeling Find Greatest Independent Man Notice Satisfaction Surprise
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Constitute Develop Draw Human Individual Intelligence Manifestation Prepare Wonderful
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Being Child Empty Fill Him Not Own Whatever With
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!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Chidres Conceive Endow Nature Observation Physic Special
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ajmer Children Come Help Men Salvation
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Affection Character Conviction Faithful Man Own Persistent Word
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!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Accompany Course During Education Life Necessary Protection Realize Whole
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confidence Conscious Fill Help Know Make Mankind Many Nobel Oneself Soul Useful Wany
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Capacity Derive Desire Must Natural Observe Phenomena Techar
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Create Give Mean Observe Power Say
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Betterment Education Every Childhood Society

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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