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A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

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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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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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He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
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Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
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Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
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The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
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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 child endures all things.
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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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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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