The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
MARIA MONTESSORIIt 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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 study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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