Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORINever help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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.
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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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