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If 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?

Maria Montessori

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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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