It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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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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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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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 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 ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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