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Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
— Maria Montessori
The child is an enigma ... He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
— Maria Montessori
The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul.
— Maria Montessori
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
— Maria Montessori
In nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
— Maria Montessori
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
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A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
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The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
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The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
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A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered ... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
— Maria Montessori
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
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Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
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All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
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Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit.
— Maria Montessori
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society ...
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The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
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The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.
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you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.
— Maria Montessori
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.
— Maria Montessori
A child needs freedom within limits.
— Maria Montessori
What the hand does the mind remembers.
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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
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This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
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Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
— Maria Montessori
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.
— Maria Montessori
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
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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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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
— Maria Montessori
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
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For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
— Maria Montessori
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself
that is the first duty of the educator. — Maria Montessori
that is the first duty of the educator. — Maria Montessori
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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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
— Maria Montessori
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
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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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We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
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Children become like the things they love.
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Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
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Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.
— Maria Montessori
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
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We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.
— Maria Montessori
The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.
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The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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 social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.
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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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A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
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Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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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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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
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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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Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
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It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
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The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.
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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.
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It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
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The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.
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The child becomes a person through work.
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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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At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
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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.
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The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.
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Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
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The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.
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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
— Maria Montessori
The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.
— Maria Montessori
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
— Maria Montessori