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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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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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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There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.
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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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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
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Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.
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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
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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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