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.
MARIA MONTESSORIIn 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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