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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.

Maria Montessori

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Await Birth Child Soul Successive We
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Builder Child Exist Formed Man Once
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Activity Age Child Develop Freely Language Movement Must Safeguard
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Art Artistic Attention Considerable Education Gemara Only Reason Recommended Space Teacher Training
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ability Color Movement Necessary Population Reality See
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Activity Child Confound Does Educator Evil Good Immobility See Task
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 MONTESSORI

Along Always Antiquate Conceive Education Knowledge Line Transmission
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Aid Balance Basic Educator Free However Learn Life Position Task Upright
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Capacity Derive Desire Must Natural Observe Phenomena Techar
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Acquire Action Arrive Develop Equilibrium Free Freely Master Move Naturally Person Quickly Spiritual
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Being Develop Discover Education Human Natural Process Something Spontaneous Teach

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