The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
MARIA MONTESSORIWith man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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.
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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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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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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 possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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 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 is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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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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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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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 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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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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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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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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