The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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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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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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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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