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.
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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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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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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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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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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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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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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