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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
Inventor
Lecturer
Mathematician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
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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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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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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 hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.
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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
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The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
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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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