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 MONTESSORIAn unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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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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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
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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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Indeed 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 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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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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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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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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