If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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 social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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