One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORIJoy, 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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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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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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