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.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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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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The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
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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 chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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