With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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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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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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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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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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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