The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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 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 first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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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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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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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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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