"If education is always to be conceived along……" — Maria Montessori
"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 it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
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Maria Montessori
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256 Quotes by Maria Montessori
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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been…
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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the…
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human…
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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective…
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Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but…
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The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
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We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker…
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being,…
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