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.
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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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 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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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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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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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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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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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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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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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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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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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