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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.
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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There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence the full totality of his psychic powers.
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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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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
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in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
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The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
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The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
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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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Within the child lies the fate of the future.
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An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.
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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
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A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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