Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
MARIA MONTESSORIMy 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.
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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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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 person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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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 first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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.
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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 greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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