Birth Quotes by Maria Montessori

12 Birth quotes by Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori’s words on birth highlight the natural curiosity that sparks learning from the very start. This short list offers a window into how she saw the earliest stages of development.

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Education must start from birth.

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The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

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The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period…

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The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that…

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The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem…

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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and…

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The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to…

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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The…

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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the…

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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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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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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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Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which…

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

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