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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
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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Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
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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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Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
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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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Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.
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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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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing
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The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
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Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
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