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“Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Independent #Law
“The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Independent #Adults
“The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Educator #Should
“Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Helping
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Family #Children #Parenting
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”
-- Maria Montessori

#Inspirational #Life #Success
“Any child who is self-sufficient , who can ties his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Self #Shoes
“Play is the work of the child.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Play #Children Playing
“What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Miracle #Independence
“There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Community #Atmosphere
“The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Eye #Soul
“Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Understanding #Intellectual #Growth
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Peace #War #Educational
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Imagination #Doe #Use
“We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Ideas #Unity
“Of all things love is the most potent.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Love Is #Parental
“The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.â€Â â€œDiscipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Naughty #Discipline
“Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Humanity #Craving
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Education #Children #Tests
“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.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Teacher #Lying #Desire
“Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Weapons #Today #Assuming
“Little children, from the moment they areÂ weaned, are making their way toward independence.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Independence #Littles
“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

#Children #Men #Parent
“Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Kindness #Wish
“Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.”
-- Maria Montessori

#War #Politician #Preventing War
“To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Leaving #Tasks #Aids
“Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Design #Erase
“The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Ideas #Differences
“The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Children #Lying #Evil
“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.”
-- Maria Montessori

#Teacher #Children #First Love

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