If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe child who concentrates is immensely happy.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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 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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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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