The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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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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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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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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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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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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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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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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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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