We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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 selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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 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 greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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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 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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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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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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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 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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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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