If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
MARIA MONTESSORI
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.’
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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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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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
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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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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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