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The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character it is a preparation of the spirit.
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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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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These words reveal the child’s inner needs ‘Help me to do it alone’.
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The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
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To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
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