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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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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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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
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Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
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Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
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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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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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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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It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
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To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.
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