There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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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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