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The 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.

Maria Montessori

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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Born Bound Children Easily Experimentation Fortunate Human Investigation Laboratory Microscopic Nature Reson Think
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
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 MONTESSORI

Allow Bone Children Desist Rise Simply Sit Try Twist Write
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

All Brotherhood Child Garden Mankind Men Obstacle Olay Over Transform Whole
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adolescent Child Must never Stage Surpassed Treat
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Artistic Creation Development Draw Education Freedom Graduate Lead Spirit Technique
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Capable Conquer Environment Every Formidable Found Great Man Mean Obstacle Theorsim
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Being Child Empty Fill Him Not Own Whatever With
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Correctness Educational Happiness One Procedure Test
We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Cosmos Create Enjoy Evolve Only Order
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Children Interset Many Myself Study Three Upward Year
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Guide Passion Raed Short Single Start Subject Teacher Varied
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Animal Applym Study Branch Natual Producer Science Selfness Zoology
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Always Away Custodian Honour Human Man Morality Respect Sentiment Woman Yield

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