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"50 Maria Montessori Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 31 August 1870. Died: 6 May 1952 | Physician | Educator |

Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Appreciated Being Capable Enormous
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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.

Being Develops Discovered Does
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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.'

Able Children Did Exist
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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.

Allow Bones Children Rise
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Age Being Earliest Even
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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.

Between Development Establishing Expressing
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Aid Basic Educator Free
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Childhood Early EarlyChildhood Education
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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. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

Been Being Builder Child
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

Beauty Bringing Happiness Health
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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.
Children Come Help Makers
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Education Establishing Keep Lasting
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Going Help Master Only
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Child Correctness Educational Happiness
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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

Child Consciousness Duty Educator
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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!

Children Education Endowed General
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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.

Accompany Course Education Life
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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. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.

Among Better BetterWorld Command
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
Body Depends Life Man
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

Almost Confidence Consciousness Dignity
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Age Begins Child Circumstance
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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.

Acquired Actions Developing Equilibrium
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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?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
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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.

Attention Child Controlling Education
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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.

Cannot Create Education Giving
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Acquire Between Child Difference
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Child Feels He Help
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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Child Free Him Potential
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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.

Activity Child Confound Does
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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!

Anything Ever Language Learn
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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.

Activity Capacity Derive Desire
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

ChildHappy Immensely Who
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

Always Been Existed Great
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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.

Belonging Chemistry Child Going
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.

Always Custodian Honour Human
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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.

Accomplished Also Been Characterize
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Intelligence Life Manifested Marvellous
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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.

Animals Characteristic Degree Functions
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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.

Become Duty Human Inalienable
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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.

Any Based Children Duty
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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.

Basis Continuous Founded Marriage
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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.

Affections Character Convictions Faithful
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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.

Belongs Exist Faith Faiths
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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.

Brotherhood Children Garden Globe
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

Child Expressed Given Invented
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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.

Aloud AsFarAs Books Combination
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Art Artistic Attention Considerable
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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.

Artistic Attained Creation Development
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
Almighty Fault Human Limitations
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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.
About Dependence Does He
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Maria Montessori Quotes & Sayings