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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.

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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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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The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character it is a preparation of the spirit.
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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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If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.
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Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
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Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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