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Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
Born: Aug 31, 1870
Died: May 6, 1952
Child Education Life Man Natural Work
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. Maria Montessori
Life Work Education Man Himself Conditions Which
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely. Maria Montessori
Spiritual Master Physical Poise He Developing Freely Equilibrium His Person Move Just Which Acquired Naturally Who Actions
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori
Work Wait Master Only Going Teachers Help Servants
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean. Maria Montessori
Travel Man Hero Fly Ocean Increasing Beneath Tremendous Air Machinery Through He Almost Velocity Tale Powers Fairy Fairy Tale Exert Surface Go Were Fantastic Ever
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference. Maria Montessori
Work Creative Rudeness Expectation Patient Symptom State Adolescence Indifference Tendency Had He Self-Confidence Towards Becomes Very Chief Child Which Sensitive Creative Work Suddenly Suffered Strengthening Need
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality. Maria Montessori
Respect Woman Protection Become Duty Morality Principles Maternity Human Social Inalienable Should Raised Position
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it. Maria Montessori
Intelligence Mind Will Every Type Our Possess Insect Find Adult Unconscious Unconscious Mind Call Does Inferior Child Being Mean Full Now Conscious Conscious Mind
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. Maria Montessori
Man Woman Sentiment Honour Respects Morality Always Yielded Human Custodian Palm
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. Maria Montessori
Life Free Aid Leaving However Educator Task Basic
Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization. Maria Montessori
Great Man Every Heroism Earth Civilization Laying Environment Obstacles Himself Lord His Establishing Formidable Capable Means Who Conquering Found Foundations
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through. Maria Montessori
Soul Nothing Possible Carry Give Perfect Through Faculty Come Safeguarding Material Child Efforts Lack May Then Await Watch Interruption
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. Maria Montessori
Nature Man Difficult Characterize Spontaneous Most Also Been Accomplished Creations Speech
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely. Maria Montessori
Life Health Great Age Psychic Language Three First Increases Must Physical Only Through Develop Freely Also Passes Years Child May Movement Order Size Laid Transformations Which Activities Foundations
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 Natural Lie Must Only Observe Observer Feel Understand Natural Phenomena Capacity Derive Activity Her Phenomena Desire Phenomenon Position
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely. Maria Montessori
Good Space Half Sense Possibility About Seems Freely Know Comfort Offer Unencumbered Which Moving Room Us Agreeable Floor Conscious
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! Maria Montessori
Speak Language Men Only No-One Perfectly Learn Anything Them Teach Ever
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero! Maria Montessori
Man Construction Nothing Birth Indeed Small Small Child Generally Takes Period Powers Greater Because Than Child Place Far Realized Speaking Zero
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. Maria Montessori
Life Will Complete Arbitrary Only Tends Thus Toward Spontaneous Arrest Educational Imposition Tasks Movements Unfolding Which Act Avoid Help Helpful Necessary
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. Maria Montessori
Life Speak Language Chemistry Mental Takes Merely Like Learns His Child Going Place Race Belonging
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position. Maria Montessori
Education Spiritual Balance Impossible Sense Other Else Everything Everything Else Moral Physical Without Equilibrium Source Any May Upright Move Depends Which Stand Compared Position
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth. Maria Montessori
Man Degree Animals Mouth Sense Organ Characteristic Touch Highest Highest Degree Hand Human While Grasp Functions Two
It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech. Maria Montessori
Words Complete Seven Minds Carried Entirely Study Idea Toward Between Ecstatic Parts Understand However Five May Children Tireless Interest Show Who Grasp Away Speech
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