Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORIIndeed 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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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 task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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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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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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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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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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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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