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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
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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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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Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
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The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.
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As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
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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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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.
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Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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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 first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
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The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
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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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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.
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The child endures all things.
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The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
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Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
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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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