Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORIMoral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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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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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move 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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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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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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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