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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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Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
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A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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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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Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
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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 becomes a person through work.
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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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The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
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The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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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These words reveal the child’s inner needs ‘Help me to do it alone’.
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The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.
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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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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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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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