If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORITravel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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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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