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Of all things love is the most potent.
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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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
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It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
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The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
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The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
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The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.
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The child seeks for independence by means of work an independence of body and mind.
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The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
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But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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Order is not goodness but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.
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The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
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The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!
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Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
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Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
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No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.
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