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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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Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.
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Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
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Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
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The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
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The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
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The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
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Order is not goodness but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.
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There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life
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A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
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There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
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Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
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The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.
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The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
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What the hand does the mind remembers.
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Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
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