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" Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. "
Maria Montessori
Own
Feeling
Joy
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" It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation. "
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" There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society. "
Maria Montessori
Two
Side
Society
" The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child. "
Maria Montessori
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" There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit. "
Maria Montessori
Drawing
Spirit
Goal
" The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature. "
Maria Montessori
Doing
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Man
" The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth. "
Maria Montessori
Man
Two
Touch
" The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was. "
Maria Montessori
Child
Us
Whatever
" We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. "
Maria Montessori
Saying
Power
Giving
" The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. "
Maria Montessori
Which
Parents
Social
" Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education! "
Maria Montessori
Way
Children
Nature
" Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position. "
Maria Montessori
Balance
Stand
Spiritual
" If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. "
Maria Montessori
Education
You
Will
" At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. "
Maria Montessori
Personality
Man
Education
" The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society. "
Maria Montessori
Growth
Child
Society
" When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. "
Maria Montessori
Age
Child
Fitness
" The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. "
Maria Montessori
Good
Seeing
Task
" The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference. "
Maria Montessori
Work
Creative
Self-Confidence
" Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. "
Maria Montessori
Education
Society
Childhood
" Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. "
Maria Montessori
Wisdom
Best
Education
" If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. "
Maria Montessori
Help
Men
Only
" It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted. "
Maria Montessori
Tired
Writing
Simple
" We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely. "
Maria Montessori
Comfort
Us
Space
" Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased. "
Maria Montessori
Noble
Ideas
Been
" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "
Maria Montessori
Only
Training
Reading
" 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? "
Maria Montessori
Same
Education
Future
" Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. "
Maria Montessori
Man
Human
Always
" My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age. "
Maria Montessori
Three
Education
Age
" The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity. "
Maria Montessori
Confidence
Dignity
Help
" Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. "
Maria Montessori
Succeed
Help
Never
" The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it. "
Maria Montessori
Now
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