To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
MARIA MONTESSORIHow can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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.
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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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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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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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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 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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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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