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Life Quotes by Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori stresses that the first years, from birth to six, are the most important part of life. She says a living environment, guided by a prepared adult, helps a child organize themselves. She also believes that school should prepare for life, not just give instruction.

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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

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

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The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from…

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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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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

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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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“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.”

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To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond…

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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it…

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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…

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The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient…

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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies,…

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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate…

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This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in…

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“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search…

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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and…

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The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is…

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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means…

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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…

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How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,…

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“There does exist, however, an external prize for man; when, for example, the orator sees the faces of his listeners change with…

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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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This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.

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Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

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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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Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

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It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

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

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The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

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Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

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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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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his…

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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

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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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Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

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The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a…

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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.

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It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

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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…

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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.…

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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of 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 not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind.…

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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…

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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited…

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