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Men Quotes by Maria Montessori
- By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he…
- Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery…
- 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…
- It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.
- The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.
- It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
- An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual,…
- 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…
- He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
- Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can…
- The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of…
- Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
- Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved…
- 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…
- The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
- If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
- There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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