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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
Inventor
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
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An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.
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A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
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When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.
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The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.
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It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
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A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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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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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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It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.
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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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Of all things love is the most potent.
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The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.
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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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