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No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'
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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Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
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But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
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Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one it is everything.
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.
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Teach by teaching, not by correcting
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The development of the mind comes through movement
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Of all things love is the most potent.
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The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
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Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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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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The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
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The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.
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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
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