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Maria Montessori Quotes

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength Picture Quote #1

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life Picture Quote #1

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something Picture Quote #1

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves Picture Quote #1

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself Picture Quote #1

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline Picture Quote #1

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Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover Picture Quote #1

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature Picture Quote #1

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him Picture Quote #1

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free Picture Quote #1

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher Picture Quote #1

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment Picture Quote #1

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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child’s spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities Picture Quote #1

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work Picture Quote #1

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn Picture Quote #1

If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help Picture Quote #1

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality Picture Quote #1

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form Picture Quote #1

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Conventions which camouflage a man’s true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society Picture Quote #1

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises Picture Quote #1

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child Picture Quote #1

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create Picture Quote #1

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time Picture Quote #1

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life’s heritage Picture Quote #1

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There should be music in the child’s environment, just as there does exist in the child’s environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided Picture Quote #1

The teacher’s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child Picture Quote #1

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child Picture Quote #1

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity Picture Quote #1

Discipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined Picture Quote #1

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war Picture Quote #1

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When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength (Maria Montessori Quotes) Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life (Maria Montessori Quotes) The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something (Maria Montessori Quotes) Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves (Maria Montessori Quotes) The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself (Maria Montessori Quotes) Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline (Maria Montessori Quotes) Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover (Maria Montessori Quotes) A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature (Maria Montessori Quotes) Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him (Maria Montessori Quotes) Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free (Maria Montessori Quotes) The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher (Maria Montessori Quotes) It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment (Maria Montessori Quotes) Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child’s spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities (Maria Montessori Quotes) Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work (Maria Montessori Quotes) The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn (Maria Montessori Quotes) If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help (Maria Montessori Quotes) It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality (Maria Montessori Quotes) A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form (Maria Montessori Quotes) Conventions which camouflage a man’s true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society (Maria Montessori Quotes) Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises (Maria Montessori Quotes) The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child (Maria Montessori Quotes) Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create (Maria Montessori Quotes) One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time (Maria Montessori Quotes) Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life’s heritage (Maria Montessori Quotes) There should be music in the child’s environment, just as there does exist in the child’s environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided (Maria Montessori Quotes) The teacher’s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child (Maria Montessori Quotes) No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child (Maria Montessori Quotes) Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity (Maria Montessori Quotes) Discipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined (Maria Montessori Quotes) Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war (Maria Montessori Quotes)

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