The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORITo aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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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 acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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