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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
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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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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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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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
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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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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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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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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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.’
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