Top 49 Life Maria Montessori Quotes
#1. Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
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#2. Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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#3. We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
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#6. 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.
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#7. It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
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#8. The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
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#9. Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
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#13. If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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#14. To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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#15. If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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#16. To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself
that is the first duty of the educator.
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#17. The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
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#18. Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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#19. Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.
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#20. But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
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#21. The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.
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#22. With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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#23. To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim, is to understand the child's work and be able to guide it better.
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#25. This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
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#26. If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
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#27. 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.
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#28. To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.
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#29. We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind,
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#30. There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life
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#31. The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
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#32. Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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#33. The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
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#34. There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.
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#35. The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.
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#36. Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
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#37. Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.
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#38. 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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#39. The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.
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#43. Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness
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#44. Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.
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#45. Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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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#49. The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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