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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
Maria Montessori
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.
Maria Montessori
No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.
Maria Montessori
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
Maria Montessori
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.
Maria Montessori
The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.
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A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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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 development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
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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.
Maria Montessori
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
Maria Montessori
Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
Maria Montessori
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
Maria Montessori
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
Maria Montessori
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
Maria Montessori
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.
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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one it is everything.
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