The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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.
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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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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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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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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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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 consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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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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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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