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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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Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physician
Psychiatrist
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Teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Education must start from birth.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
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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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Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.
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It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
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The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
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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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Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
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