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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Maria Montessori

It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Allow Bone Children Desist Rise Simply Sit Try Twist Write
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adapt Condition Education Himself Life Man Organisation Self Work
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Free Him Into Potential Transform Will World
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Also First Foundation Health Laid Physical Psychic Three Year
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Duly Inalienable Maternity Position Protection Raise Respect Social Women
The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adult Call Child Conscious Mind Out Posses Type
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Age Earliest Even Feeling Find Greatest Independent Man Notice Satisfaction Surprise
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adolescent Child Must never Stage Surpassed Treat
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Human Intelligence Intelligent Life Manifest Marvellous People Person Spoken Word
There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Activity Intellectual Need Realize Understanding Value
No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Builder Child Exist Formed Man Once
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 MONTESSORI

Dependence Feckless Hang Love Man Mother Patriotism Point Son Weak
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Education Establish Last Peace Work

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