Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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 greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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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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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 child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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.
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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 consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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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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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 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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