Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
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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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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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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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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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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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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 person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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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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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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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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Through 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.
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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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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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