The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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 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 ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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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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