Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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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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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.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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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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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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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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