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.
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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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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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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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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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 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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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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