The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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 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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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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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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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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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