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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.

Maria Montessori

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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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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 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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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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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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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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Dependence 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.
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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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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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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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