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Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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 teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.
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No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.
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Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
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The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
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As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
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Within the child lies the fate of the future.
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The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
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Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
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