"The only language men ever speak perfectly is……" — Maria Montessori
"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"
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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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More Babyhood Quotes
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Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until…
— James Jeans
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People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is…
— Paul Reiser
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can…
— William Morris Hunt
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People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting…
— Lois Duncan
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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No…
— John Keble
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There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and…
— George Washington
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A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.
— Samuel Lover
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A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar…
— Gerald Massey
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace…
— Saint Basil
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