The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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 is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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