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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.

Maria Montessori

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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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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.
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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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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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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 greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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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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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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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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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 possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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