Maria Montessori Quotes About Teaching
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The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Teach by teaching, not by correcting
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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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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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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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A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.
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The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
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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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The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
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