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The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
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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It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
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The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.
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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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These words reveal the child’s inner needs ‘Help me to do it alone’.
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There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
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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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Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.
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Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
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The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.
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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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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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