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No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.
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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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
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He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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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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There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
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The child becomes a person through work.
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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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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Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.
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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 in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one it is everything.
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