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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
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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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The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
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