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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.

Maria Montessori

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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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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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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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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 task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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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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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 ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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