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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
Inventor
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Mathematician
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
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The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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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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The child will reveal himself through work.
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It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
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Teach by teaching, not by correcting
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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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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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Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.
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Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
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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 children are now working as if I did not exist.
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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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