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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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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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 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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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.
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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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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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