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 MONTESSORIThe task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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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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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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