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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

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 greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
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The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
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Education must start from birth.
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Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
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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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