When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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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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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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