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Maria Montessori

(1870–1952) Essayist

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Maria Montessori was an essayist, best known for Metodo della pedagogia scientifica.

Quick Facts About Maria Montessori

Born: August 31, 1870
Died: May 6, 1952
Profession: Essayist
Notable works: Metodo della pedagogia scientifica

About Maria Montessori

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use globally in many public and private schools.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Maria Montessori · Page 5

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

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Education

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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

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Childhood

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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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Birth

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

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Child

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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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Achieve

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

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Instruction

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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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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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Class

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Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated…

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Attitude

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We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing…

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Activity

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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of…

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Children

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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what…

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Child

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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…

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Children

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There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social…

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Children

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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…

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Add

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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

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Children

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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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Birth

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At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof…

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Age

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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as…

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Activity

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Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations…

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Acting

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The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth,…

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Child

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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It…

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Activity

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Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's…

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Bases

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“Dr. Montessori believes in liberty for the pupil because she thinks of life "as a superb goddess, ever advancing to new conquests."…

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Freedom

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

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Education

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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

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Change

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The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

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Activity

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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

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Children

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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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Children

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The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

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Explorers

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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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Age

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Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

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Arrive

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The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

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Education

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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…

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Cannot

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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

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Child

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A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

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Done

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There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it…

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Can do

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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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Child

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Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

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Aging

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All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

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Force

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Maria Montessori by topic

Children (233) Child (113) Education (105) Life (60) Montessori (54) Inspirational (40) Teacher (32) Freedom (32) Love (31) Nature (30) Development (30) Firsts (29) Men (28) Humans (27) Helping (27) Growth (27) Ifs (26) Environment (26) Should (25) Psychology (25) Activity (24) Mind (22) Time (21) Nature of man (21) Independent (20)