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The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori
Age: 81 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 31
Died: 1952
Died: May 6
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Mathematician
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Philosopher
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Psychiatrist
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.
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The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
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He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
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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 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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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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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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If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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Of all things love is the most potent.
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Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
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Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
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The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
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Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
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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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My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.
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If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
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