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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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The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
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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.
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The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
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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 child endures all things.
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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.
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What the hand does the mind remembers.
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A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
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