The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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 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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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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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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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 child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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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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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
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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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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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