Maria Montessori Short Quotes

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Order is... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

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Human dignity... is derived from a sense of independence.

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In nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.

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All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

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The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

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Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

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Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

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Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

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A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

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The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

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Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

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A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.

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A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

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A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

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Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

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Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

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No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.

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