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The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

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
Everything
Prejudice
Adopts
Children
Habit
Welcomes
Mind
Poverty
Countrymen
Accepting
Accepts
Wealth
Prejudices
Child
Habits
Religion
Puts
Hope
Equally
Incarnating

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