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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.
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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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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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These words reveal the child’s inner needs ‘Help me to do it alone’.
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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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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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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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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.
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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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A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
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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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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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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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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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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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