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We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori
Age: 81 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 31
Died: 1952
Died: May 6
Inventor
Lecturer
Mathematician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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Future
Better
Children
Nobler
Reap
Labor

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It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
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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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