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Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
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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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 teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.
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The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.
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Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.
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Of all things love is the most potent.
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The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
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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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