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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.

Maria Montessori

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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confidence Conscious Fill Help Know Make Mankind Many Nobel Oneself Soul Useful Wany
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 MONTESSORI

Accord Adult Ancient Child Fashion Growth Human Oatternm Require Persist Personality Progressive Society Superficial Unalter
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Against Another Begin Bomb Conquer Day Distant Explosion Fall Instantaneous Stone Template
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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Almighty Fault Human Limitation Logic Logical Way
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
MARIA MONTESSORI

All Brotherhood Child Garden Mankind Men Obstacle Olay Over Transform Whole
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Capacity Derive Desire Must Natural Observe Phenomena Techar
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Actually Adolescent Disgreated Greater Less Respect Show Treat Value
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!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Child Correctness Educational Happiness One Procedure Test
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
MARIA MONTESSORI

Along Always Antiquate Conceive Education Knowledge Line Transmission
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Basis Continous Marriage Ounded Parent Relation Reproduction Social Species Union Upon
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Anything Babyhood Every Language Learn Old One Speak
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Acompishm Nature Character Child Creation Difficult Indeed Most Small Spontaneous
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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Body Depend Life Man Spirit With

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