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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

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Maria Montessori
Age: 81 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 31
Died: 1952
Died: May 6
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.
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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.
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It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
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Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.
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Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
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The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
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