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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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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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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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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 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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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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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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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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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