Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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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.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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