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To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.
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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Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
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The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
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The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
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These words reveal the child’s inner needs ‘Help me to do it alone’.
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At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.
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All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
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The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
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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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One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.
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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 goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.
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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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The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
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A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
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Discipline must come through liberty.
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