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 MONTESSORIBooks are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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