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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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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We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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 child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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Of all things love is the most potent.
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Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.
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A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one it is everything.
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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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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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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
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If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.
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The child seeks for independence by means of work an independence of body and mind.
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If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.
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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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