This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
MARIA MONTESSORIDependence 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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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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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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