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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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The development of the mind comes through movement
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No one can be free unless he is independent.
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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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It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
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