We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
MARIA MONTESSORIThis is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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 consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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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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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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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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