The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORIThere can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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 social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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!
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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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.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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