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Environment 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…
- The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
- ... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
- The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize…
- Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
- The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain…
- The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
- To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
- The child should live in an environment of beauty.
- The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form…
- 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.…
- There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than…
- The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
- The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
- The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
- We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to…
- Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
- The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it…
- ...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.…
- The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is…
- Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual,…
More Environment Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon