Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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 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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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
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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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