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.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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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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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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