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" The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man. "

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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

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" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "

" The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic. "

" With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit. "

" All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity. "

" To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest. "

" 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! "

" Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean. "

" The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. "

" In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely. "

" If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. "

" The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! "

" Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. "

" To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. "

" 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. "

" Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. "

" It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method. "

Maria Montessori

Method

Child

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

" Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. "

" When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. "

" 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. "

" The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. "

" It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born. "

" The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. "

" The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality. "

" If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. "

" The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos. "

" We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. "

" One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. "

" Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. "