Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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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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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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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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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 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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