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What the hand does the mind remembers.
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 child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.
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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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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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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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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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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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We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
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We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
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Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
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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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The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
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Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
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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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Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.
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Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.
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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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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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Discipline must come through liberty.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
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