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The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

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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No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.
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Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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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 goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
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The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
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Education must start from birth.
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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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It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.
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When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.
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Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.
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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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