To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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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 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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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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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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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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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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 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 possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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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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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
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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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