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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.
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 real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character it is a preparation of the spirit.
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It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.
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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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The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
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A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
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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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The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
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The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.
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The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
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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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Education must start from birth.
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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
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If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .
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Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
Maria Montessori
Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.
Maria Montessori
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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The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
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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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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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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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