It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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 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.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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 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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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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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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