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Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
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 everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
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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 unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
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Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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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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The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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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 child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.
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Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.
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The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.
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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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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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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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The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
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