Saturday, April 21, 2012

When I think of child development…


When I think of child development…
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
~Albert Einstein

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 of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
~Maria Montessori

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
~Maria Montessori

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~Maria Montessori

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."
~Maria Montessori

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.
~Maria Montessori

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.
~Maria Montessori

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
~Jean Piaget 

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