"To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge."
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Maria Montessori quotes (page 4 of 17)
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"Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them."
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"Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements."
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"A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form."
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"Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin."
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"Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow."
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"The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it."
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"The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'."
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"It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities."
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"The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself."
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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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"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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"First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect."
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"This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light."
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"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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"A child needs freedom within limits."
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"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."
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"The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child."
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"There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature."
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"Children become like the things they love."
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