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.’
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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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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 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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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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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