Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
MARIA MONTESSORIEstablishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
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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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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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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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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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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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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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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.
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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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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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