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.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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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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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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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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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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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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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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