Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
MARIA MONTESSORIAll work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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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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 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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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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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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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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 possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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 education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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