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The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
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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There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
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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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Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
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It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
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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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At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.
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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 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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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
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