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.
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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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 acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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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 child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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