Maria Montessori Quotes - Page 3

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• First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

  Maria Montessori

  Firsts, Intellect, Senses

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• The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Ordinary

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• When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

  Maria Montessori

  Nature, Children, Contact

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• Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Helping, Veneration

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• The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Educator, Should

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part II, (p. 121), 1949.

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• Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
  par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Excellence

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Views, Preparation

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• As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Interest, Loses

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• The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Personality, Firsts

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

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• The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Eye, Soul

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• He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Hands, Play

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• The child will reveal himself through work.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Montessori

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

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Tests

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• The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Land, Roots

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• Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mind, Movement

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• The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Use, Shapes

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Appreciate

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• Within the child lies the fate of the future.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Future

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• Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

  Maria Montessori

  Achievement, Causes, Imperfect

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.5, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Splendid, Form

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• A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Persons

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• The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

  Maria Montessori

  Class, Race, Mankind

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• Children become like the things they love.

  Maria Montessori

  Children

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Absorbent Mind”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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

  Maria Montessori

  Imagination, Doe, Use

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• The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Development, World

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 4), 1949.

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