It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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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We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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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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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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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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 task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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