Montessori Quotes
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Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
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We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.
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Within the child lies the fate of the future.
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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
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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.
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Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
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Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
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The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
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If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.
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It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
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Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
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This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.
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The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
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The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
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Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
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It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.
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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm willing to take them further. I think it will be a good thing to keep them in the program.
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The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.
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The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
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The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done
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