The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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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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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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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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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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