If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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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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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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 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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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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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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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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 hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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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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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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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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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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