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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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It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
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The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
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It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
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How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
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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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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.
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