If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
MARIA MONTESSORIThe adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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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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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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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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