"The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence." — Maria Montessori
"The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence."
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Maria Montessori
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256 Quotes by Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori has 256 quotes on this site.
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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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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
— John James Audubon
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher…
— Jane Austen
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is…
— Alfred Austin
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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