Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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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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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.
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