Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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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 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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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