One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe child who concentrates is immensely happy.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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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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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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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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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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