If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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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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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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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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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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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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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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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