Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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 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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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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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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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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