The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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 hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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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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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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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 consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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