If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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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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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!
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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 adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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