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.
MARIA MONTESSORINo, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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 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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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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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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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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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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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