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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
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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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
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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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The child endures all things.
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If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .
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What the hand does the mind remembers.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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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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Education must start from birth.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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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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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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