Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
MARIA MONTESSORITravel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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