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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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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If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
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The child endures all things.
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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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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
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Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
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The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
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The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.
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The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.
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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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