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.
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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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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 social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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 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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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