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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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 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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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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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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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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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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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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 ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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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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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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