The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe child who concentrates is immensely happy.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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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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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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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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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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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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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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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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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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