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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.’

Maria Montessori

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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Call Invent Method Montessori True
No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Builder Child Exist Formed Man Once
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Age Already Child Education Foundation Help Human Lead Need Personality Special Three Year
The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Guide Passion Raed Short Single Start Subject Teacher Varied
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Almost Case Exert Fairy Fantastic Hero Machinery Power Tale Through Tremendous
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Go Help Master Only Servant Teacher Upon
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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Basis Continous Marriage Ounded Parent Relation Reproduction Social Species Union Upon
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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Activity Child Confound Does Educator Evil Good Immobility See Task
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Attention Child Control Education Entire Problem Solve
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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Almighty Fault Human Limitation Logic Logical Way
The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Adult Call Child Conscious Mind Out Posses Type
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Education Establish Last Peace Work
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Become Child Go Language Mental Merely Place Race
There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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Activity Intellectual Need Realize Understanding Value
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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Acquisition Hope Knowledge Line Little Made Such Transmission
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.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ability Color Movement Necessary Population Reality See

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