The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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 teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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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 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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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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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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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 purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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