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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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