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Experience 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…
- Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
- Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
- He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
- Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that…
- 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 undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience…
- The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in…
- Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
- ...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 necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila