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- ... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
- What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to…
- The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion:…
- Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
- Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
- Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
- The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.
- Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have…
- This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim,…
- 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…
- There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first…
- 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…
- 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…
- Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his…
- 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.…
- The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
- The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of…
- No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene,…
- Any child who is self-sufficient , who can ties his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image…
- The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to become from the…
- It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose,…
- Education must start from birth.
- A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the…
- The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child…
- If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from…
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