Maria Montessori Quotes - Page 2

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• The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

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  Children, Promise, Mankind

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• To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

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  Confusion, Details, Teach

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• Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

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  Children, Humanity, Craving

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• The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

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  Children, Profound, Discipline

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

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  Children, Self, Shoes

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• 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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  Children, Light, Desire

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Spontaneous Activity in Education”, p.108, Montessori Helper

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• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

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  Teaching, Teach, Correcting

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• Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

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  Children, Parenting, Innocence

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

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  Children, Teaching, Imagination

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

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  Children, Independent, Buttons

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• The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

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  Children, Mean, Independent

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• Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

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  Education, Children, Learning

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• The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

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  World, Way, Explorers

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• The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

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  Children, Independent, Adults

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

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  Art, Children, Thinking

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• The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

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  Children, Mind, Able

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• The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

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  Children, Years, Three

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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. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

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  Teacher, Children, Listening

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• The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

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  Children, Adults, Environment

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• Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

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  Joy, Growth, Evidence

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• The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

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  Children, Environment, Rich

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• To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

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  Children, Ideas, Likes

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• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

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  Self, Essence, Independence

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• Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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  Understanding, Intellectual, Growth

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

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• What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

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  Children, Miracle, Independence

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