Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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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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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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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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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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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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
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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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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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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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