I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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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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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.
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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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