It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
MARIA MONTESSORITravel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for 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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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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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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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