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 MONTESSORIThe social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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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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