We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORIOne test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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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 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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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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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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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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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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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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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