We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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?
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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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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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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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.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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 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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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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