We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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 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.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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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.
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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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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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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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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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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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