When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
MARIA MONTESSORITo aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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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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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 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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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