Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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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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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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 selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
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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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Books 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.
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There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
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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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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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