If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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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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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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