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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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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How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
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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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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
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It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
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The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Discipline must come through liberty.
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Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
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The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
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It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
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There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
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Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.
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The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.
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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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