Quotes About Growth

I'm this thing that emerged from it, some kind of miserable Phoenix.

I'm a hoax, a dying boy who's grown wings.

You're still trying to get out of hell, and it's a long climb. You'll think flight may be the answer, but you don't learn to skateboard by watching boys on the half-pipe, and you don't learn to fly by watching boys jump off cliffs, shirtless, skinny, while you hold the car keys.

They were the cream of the crop, but soon they'd be chaff, scythed from swordsmen into skeletons.

Let him grow up, I was thinking the whole time. That's an old prayer. It comes in every language.

A child is the root of the heart.

Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.

Death is a butterfly in it's cocoon waiting to fly . . .

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.

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.

Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves on the child's level by approaching him with games, and often with foolish stories. Instead of all this, we must know how to call to the man which lies dormant within the soul of the child.

you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

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.

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.

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.