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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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The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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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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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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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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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 maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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