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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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?
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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 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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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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