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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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 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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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 senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.
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Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
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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 children are now working as if I did not exist.
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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.
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Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
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To teach details is to bring confusion to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
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Teach by teaching, not by correcting
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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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Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
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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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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence the full totality of his psychic powers.
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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
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The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
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It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
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