Maria Montessori Portrait Print
"Within the child lies the fate of the future."
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Maria Montessori poster, 18" x 24"; printed in the U.S. on heavyweight paper, ready to take to your favorite framer.
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Notecards: 4.5" x 6", w/envelop (single or doz). The notecards make excellent covers for graduation program covers!
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Bookmarks 1.25" x 6", printed on heavyweight paper.
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Artist: Ernst Ulmer
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Quote source: "Within the child lies the fate of the future." The Secret of Childhood
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Maria Montessori quotes and Links for Learning
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Notable people who enjoyed a Montessori education include Julia Child, Anne Frank, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Will Wright (said "SimCity comes right out of Montessori"), Jeff Bezos, Jimmy Wales, Bill Gates, William and Harry, Katharine Graham, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, George Clooney, Jacqueline Kennedy, Queen Noor, Chelsea Clinton, Peter Drucker, Yo-Yo Ma ...
Supporters of Montessori include Margaret Wilson (daughter of President Wilson), Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Fred "Mister" Rogers.
Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known today for the method of education she originally developed to teach under privileged children in urban slums. Dr. Montessori observed that these presumed “feeble-minded” children were inherently gifted with an “absorbent mind” and would flourish in prepared environments with age sensitive activities that involve exploration, manipulations, order, repetition, abstraction, and communication.
The first woman to earn a medical degree in Italy (1896), Montessori was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 1949, 1950, and 1951.
The year 2007 marked the 100th anniversary of Montessori education.
FYI - Nobel Peace Prize winners in '49, '50, & '51 were Lord Boyd-Orr, Ralph Bunch and Léon Jouhaux.
"The child should not be regarded as a feeble and helpless creature whose only need is to be protected and helped, but as a spiritual embryo, possessed of an active psychic life from the day that he is born and guided by subtle instincts enabling him to actively build up the human personality. And since it is the child who becomes the adult man, we must consider him as the true builder of mankind.” Montessori, Education and Peace (Chicago: Regnery, 1972), p. 41.
"Within the child lies the fate of the future."
The Secret of Childhood
Quote:From the Foreword
The children in a Montessori class are given freedom, which is the liberty of the human being, and this freedom allows the children to grow in social grace, inner discipline, and joy. These are the birthrights of human beings who have been allowed to develop essential human qualities, and again, Montessori teachers from all over the world would furnish examples of these. "Excuse me," said a child to a visitor commenting in a classroom that this was the Method where the children could do as they liked, "I do not know if we do as we like, but I know that we like what we do."
Montessori Wooden Stacking Boxes-Nesting and Sorting Cups Blocks
EDUCATION FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Understanding Montessori MARIO M. MONTESSORI, JR.
AN APPRECIATION OF MONTESSORI
Buckminster Fuller, 1972
All children are born geniuses. 9999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly,
inadvertently, degeniused by grown-ups. This happens because human beings are born naked, helpless, and, though superbly equipped cerebrally, utterly lacking in experience and, therefore, utterly ignorant. Their delicate sensing equipment is, as yet, untried. Born with built-in hunger, thirst, curiosity, the procreative urge, they can only learn what humanity has learned by trial and error by billions upon billions of errors. Yet humanity is also endowed with self-deceiving pride. All those witnessing the errors of others proclaim that they (the witnesses) could have prevented those errors had they only been consulted. "People should not make mistakes," they mistakenly say. Motivated entirely by love but also by fear for the futures of the children they love, parents, in their ignorance, act as though they know all the answers and curtail the spontaneous exploratory acts of their children, lest the children make "mistakes." But genius does its' own thinking; it has confidence in its own exploratory findings, in its own intuitions, in the knowledge gained from its own mistakes. Nature has her own gestation rates for evolutionary development. The actions of parents represent the checks and balances of nature's gestation control. Humanity can evolve healthily only at a given rate. Maria Montessori was fortunately permitted to maintain, sustain, and cultivate her innate genius. Her genius invoked her awareness of the genius inherent in allchildren. Her intuition and initiative inspired her to discover ways of safe guarding this genius while allaying the ignorant fears of parents. But the way was not always easy. Hers was the difficult: frontiering task of genius.
• “We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.” Twain: A Biography: 1835-1910, Complete (You may be interested in Mark Twain, Global PathMarker.)