Italian - Educator | August 31, 1870 - May 6, 1952
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
Maria Montessori
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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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.'
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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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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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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
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