The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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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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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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