Education is a work of self-organization by which ... -Maria Montessori

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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Maria Montessori , Educator
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son....
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 ...
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her...
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war....
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men....
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?...
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 siz...
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed you...
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher conscious...
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of obse...

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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to ...
In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no ed...
My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education....
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