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 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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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.
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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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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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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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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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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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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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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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