Maria Montessori Quotes - Page 4

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• A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

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  Children, Inspiration, Book

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• Of all things love is the most potent.

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  Love Is, Parental, All Things

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• Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

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  Environmental, Development, Humans

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• The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

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  Children, Educational, Progress

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.198, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

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  Real, Book, Sight

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• Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

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  Education, Path, Release

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• A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

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  Children, Powerful, Secret

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• At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

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  Perseverance, Children, Exercise

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

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  Children, Lying, Humanity

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• There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

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  Children, Special, Kind

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• Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

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  Two, Individuality, Development

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• Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.

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  Beautiful, Children, Problem

  "To Educate the Human Potential".

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• The child who concentrates is immensely happy

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Montessori

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• We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

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  Children, Independent, Support

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• Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

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  Children, Animal, Dry Up

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• This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

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  Children, Independent, Light

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• Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

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  Children, Opportunity, Giving

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• Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

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  Children, Trying, Form

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

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• It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

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  Children, Men, He Man

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• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

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  Discipline, Silence, Individuality

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

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  Discipline, Joy, Grace

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• An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

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  Children, Self, Interesting

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• We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

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  Children, Ideas, Unity

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• The child should live in an environment of beauty.

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  Children, Environment, Should

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.218, Orient Blackswan

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• The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

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  Tasks, Use, Instruction

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 7, 1948.

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