"The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural……" — Maria Montessori
"The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them."
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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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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though…
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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
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True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing…
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You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot…
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