To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORIThrough machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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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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 child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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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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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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