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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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We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
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Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
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The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
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Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.
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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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The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
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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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Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.
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Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast and harmony is refinement therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
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We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
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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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It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.
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The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
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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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It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.
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Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
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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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The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
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