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A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
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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The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
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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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Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
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These words reveal the child’s inner needs ‘Help me to do it alone’.
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The child becomes a person through work.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
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Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
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If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
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The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
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It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.
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The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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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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Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.
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The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
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The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.
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Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
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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 child should live in an environment of beauty.
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