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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

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Maria Montessori
Age: 81 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 31
Died: 1952
Died: May 6
Inventor
Lecturer
Mathematician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
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We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
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The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!
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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
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Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
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The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
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The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
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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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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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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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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
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If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
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The child seeks for independence by means of work an independence of body and mind.
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The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.
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A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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He who is served is limited in his independence.
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The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
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