Maria Montessori

Name: Montessori Method
ISBN: 9780307772541

Educator

1870-08-31

Books by Maria Montessori

The Montessori Method

The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method
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Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
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Montessori Method
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Quotes by Maria Montessori

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
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To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
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Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
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The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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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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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
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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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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
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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.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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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.
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