The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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 are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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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 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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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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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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