The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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 respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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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 chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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