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When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori
Age: 81 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 31
Died: 1952
Died: May 6
Inventor
Lecturer
Mathematician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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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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The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character it is a preparation of the spirit.
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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.
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The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
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The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
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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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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
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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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Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
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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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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 most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
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We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
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