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When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.
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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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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Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
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Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
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The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
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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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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one it is everything.
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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 development of the mind comes through movement
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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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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.
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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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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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The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
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The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.
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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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A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
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Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
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The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
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