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Maria Montessori Inspirational Quotes (186)

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To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.
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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. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
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Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
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It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
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What the hand does the mind remembers.
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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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If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
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Of all things love is the most potent.
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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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The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
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The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
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If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
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The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
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The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
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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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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
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In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.
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The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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