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The development of the mind comes through movement

Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori
Age: 81 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 31
Died: 1952
Died: May 6
Inventor
Lecturer
Mathematician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
Movement
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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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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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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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Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
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