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 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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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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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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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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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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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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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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