The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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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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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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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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