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Education must start from birth.

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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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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
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Discipline must come through liberty.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
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The child becomes a person through work.
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Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
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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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Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
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My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
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A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
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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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There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
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It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
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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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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.
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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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