Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
MARIA MONTESSORINever help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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 first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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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