The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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 greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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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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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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