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 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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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.
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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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