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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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 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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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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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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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