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The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
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 concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
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If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
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The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
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Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
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The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
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It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
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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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A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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The child becomes a person through work.
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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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The child seeks for independence by means of work an independence of body and mind.
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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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