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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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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 acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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