Quotes About Development

A teacher simply assists him at the beginning to get his bearings among so many different things and teaches him the precise use of each of them; that is to say, she introduces him to the ordered and active life of the environment. But then she leaves him free in the choice and execution of his work.

nor can we expect exactly similar results from children whose heredity and experience make them at once more sensitive, more active, and less amenable to

The school must permit the free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform. No one may affirm that such a

While everyone was admiring the progress of my idiots, I was searching for the reasons which could keep the happy healthy children of the common schools on so low a plane that they could be equalled in tests of intelligence by my unfortunate pupils!

From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.

Others, after having studied children carefully, have come to the conclusion that the first two years are the most important of life. Education during this period must be intended as a help to the development of the psychic powers inherent in the human individual.

It behooves us to think of what may happen to the spirit of the child who is condemned to grow in conditions so artificial that his very bones may become deformed.

We need not impose poverty, but it must not frighten us, as it is the most favorable condition for spiritual development we can find, if accepted with assent. If we want to experiment in giving freedom to the child, the field of poverty is the best.

Maria Montessori

But, above all it is the education of adolescents that is important, because adolescence is the time when the child enters on the state of [adult]hood and becomes a member of society.

The prize and the punishment are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. The

It might be said that the same thing is true of every form of education; a man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done.

Sá»± th?t là chúng ta không th? t?o ra má»™t thiên tài. Chúng ta ch? có th? cho ??a tr? cÆ¡ há»™i ?? hoàn thành nh?ng kh? n?ng ti?m ?n c?a mình.

?? há»— tr? má»™t ??a tr?, chúng ta ph?i cung c?p cho chúng môi tr??ng mà s? cho phép chúng phát tri?n tá»± do.

The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.

The simplicity or imperfection of external objects often serves to develop the activity and the dexterity of the pupils. This

The fundamental principle of scientific pedagogy must be, indeed, the liberty of the pupil;–such liberty as shall permit a development of individual, spontanous manifestations of the child's nature. If

the child has a type of mind that absorbs knowledge and instructs himself.

Humanity shows itself in all its intellectual splendour during this tender age as the sun shows itself at the dawn, and the flower in the first unfolding of the petals; and we must respect religiously, reverently, these first indications of individuality. If

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

From a biological point of view, the concept of liberty in the education of the child in his earliest years must be understood as demanding those conditions adapted to the most favourable development of his entire individuality. So

work with deficient children (1898 to 1900)

It is as though nature had safeguarded each child from the influence of human intelligence in order to give the inner teacher that dictates within, the possibility of making a complete psychic construction before the human intelligence can come in contact with the spirit and influence it.

Once a direction is given to them, the child's movements are made towards a definite end, so that he himself grows quiet and contented, and becomes an active worker, a being calm and full of joy.