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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.

Maria Montessori

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Age Earliest Even Feeling Find Greatest Independent Man Notice Satisfaction Surprise
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Acquire Between Deal Different Evil First Good
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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Animal Applym Study Branch Natual Producer Science Selfness Zoology
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.’
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Children Geography Get Insect Natural Science Stories Story Travel
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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Adapt Condition Education Himself Life Man Organisation Self Work
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Accord Adult Ancient Child Fashion Growth Human Oatternm Require Persist Personality Progressive Society Superficial Unalter
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Act Complete Educational Efficacious Help Life One Toward Unfold
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Abit Book Combination Concern Follow Language Mute Operation Read Sound
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Concentrate Happy Immensely
Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Iive Inner Once Rest Spark Vision
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Anything Babyhood Every Language Learn Old One Speak
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Development Experiment Kind Labirtatry Man Observe Phenomenal Physical Possible Psygeogentetic Relation Scientific Specific

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