Quotes by Educators

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
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
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. Mark Hopkins
Inspirational Love Giving Power Affection Other Appropriate High Blessedness Greater Exercise Than Any Essential Essential Elements Race Activity Elements Consciousness
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. Mark Hopkins
Words Christ Revolution Society Has-Been Taken Been Place Which Produced Compared Ever Jesus Jesus Christ
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins
Religion Impossible Morality Superstition Without Curse
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves. Marvin Olasky
Age Fighting Believe Others Way Those Ourselves Temptation Lead Importance Close Maybe Against Should Who Serving Serving Others
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. Marvin Olasky
Better Opportunities Minority Power Unfair Increase Way Backlash Find Better Way Individuals Since Expand Provoke Bureaucratic Need
Those who give of themselves rarely regret it. Marvin Olasky
Regret Those Rarely Give Themselves Who
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. Marvin Olasky
Tired Learning Poverty Looking Philanthropists Other Way Folks Deliberately Most Fell Concerned Reactive Efforts Ordinary Apart Should Communities Organizations Who
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. Marvin Olasky
War Parents Advice Summer Months Kids Visit Civil Civil War Something Learn Continue Officially Want Themselves Next Teaching Who Now Here Two
A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him. Marvin Olasky
Job Way Employ Talents Him God-Given Should
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. Marvin Olasky
Culture Treat Animals Our Philosophies Possess Machines High High Ground Powerful Academia Most Most Powerful Courts Materialist Human Human Beings Ground Many Beings Media
The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes. Marvin Olasky
Single Few Stay Wrapper Minutes More Supposed Equivalent Than Candy Which Land Holy Disneyland Holy Land Ground Serious
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences. Marvin Olasky
Favor Alternatives Still Preferences
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