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.
MARIA MONTESSORINever help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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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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