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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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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
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The child becomes a person through work.
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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
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The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
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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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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
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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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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
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The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.
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The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.
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The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
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