All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
MARIA MONTESSORIAll work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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.
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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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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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 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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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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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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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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 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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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 respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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