With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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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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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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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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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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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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The 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.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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