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Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
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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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 ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!
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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 teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
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The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
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It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.
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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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There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.
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The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
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Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
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Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
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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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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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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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