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Activity Quotes by Maria Montessori
- Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that…
- Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious…
- Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
- The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
- Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
- The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.
- My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage…
- Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in…
- How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort.…
- When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when…
- Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this…
- No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through…
- An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say,…
- We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide…
- The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
- We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
- ...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.…
- It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he…
- The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
- The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer:…
More Activity Quotes
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry
- To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck
- If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. — Alan Bennett
- The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. — Andrea Bocelli
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker
- Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. — Edward de Bono
- Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
- I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't;… — Jo Brand
- Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last… — Jacob Bronowski
- Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you… — Bill Bryson