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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one it is everything.
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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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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Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
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Order is not goodness but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.
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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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A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
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He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
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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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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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The child will reveal himself through work.
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The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
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