To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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 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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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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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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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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