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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.
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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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
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At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.
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Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
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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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The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
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The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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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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The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.
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Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
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Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast and harmony is refinement therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
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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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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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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 child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
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