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.
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 task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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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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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of 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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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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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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