We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
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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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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.
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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
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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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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
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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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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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