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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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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Limited
Independence
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The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
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What the hand does the mind remembers.
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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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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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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 greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
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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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Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
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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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Discipline must come through liberty.
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The development of the mind comes through movement
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The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.
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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 first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
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A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
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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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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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