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Maria Montessori

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01Undated

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

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02Undated

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

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03Undated

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

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04Undated

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

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05Undated

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.

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06Undated

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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07Undated

What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.

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08Undated

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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09Undated

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

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10Undated

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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11Undated

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

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12Undated

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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13Undated

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.

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14Undated

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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15Undated

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The 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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16Undated

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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17Undated

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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18Undated

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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19Undated

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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20Undated

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.

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21Undated

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. 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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22Undated

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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23Undated

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.

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24Undated

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

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