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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!

Maria Montessori

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Aid Balance Basic Educator Free However Learn Life Position Task Upright
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adolescent Child Must never Stage Surpassed Treat
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Always Been Cease Exist Have Idea never Noble Sentiment Transmit
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Appreciate Capable Enmourous Factor Feel Fewel Human Joy Love Other Production Soul Value
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Almighty Fault Human Limitation Logic Logical Way
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Compare Education Else Equilibrium Everything Moral Source Spend Spiritual
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Children Interset Many Myself Study Three Upward Year
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Capacity Derive Desire Must Natural Observe Phenomena Techar
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confidence Conscious Fill Help Know Make Mankind Many Nobel Oneself Soul Useful Wany
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good
The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adult Call Child Conscious Mind Out Posses Type
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Correctness Educational Happiness One Procedure Test
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Accord Adult Ancient Child Fashion Growth Human Oatternm Require Persist Personality Progressive Society Superficial Unalter

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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