Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Maria Montessori
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About Maria Montessori
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use g…
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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.
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.'
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.
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.'
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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. For what is the use o…
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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. For what is the use o…
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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.
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. For what is the use o…
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.