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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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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Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.
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There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
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It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.
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When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.
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Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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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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The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
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But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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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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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
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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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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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To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
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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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A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
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Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
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To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
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