Maria Montessori Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

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  Children, Childhood, Important

• The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

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  Children, Years, Three

• A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

  Maria Montessori

  Law, Adults, Prejudice

• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

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  Change, Greatness, Personality

• Education must start from birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Birth

• At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

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  Education, Greatness, Personality

• The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

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  Growth, Development, Levels

• This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Father

• There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Psychics, Important

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