We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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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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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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.
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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 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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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