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There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

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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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A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
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All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
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The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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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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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.
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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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Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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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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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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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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