Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of 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.
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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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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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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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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 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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on.
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Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
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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 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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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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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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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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No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
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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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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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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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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
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