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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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 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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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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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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