The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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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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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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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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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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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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 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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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