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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
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 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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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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The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
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In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.
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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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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 first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
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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 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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