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• The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.

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  Children, Eye, Soul

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• The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

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  Children, Personality, Firsts

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

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  Class, Race, Mankind

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• The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

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  Children, Use, Shapes

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

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  Children, Inspiration, Book

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• The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

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  Children, Environment, Rich

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• There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

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  Children, Order, Appreciate

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• The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

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  Teacher, Children, Ordinary

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• At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

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  Perseverance, Children, Exercise

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.

  Maria Montessori

  Beautiful, Children, Problem

  "To Educate the Human Potential".

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• It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

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  Teacher, Children, May

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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  Imagination, Doe, Use

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• Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

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  Character, Taught, Explanation

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• Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

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  Children, Mind, Movement

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• Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

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  Environmental, Development, Humans

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• Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

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  Achievement, Causes, Imperfect

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.5, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

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  Children, Independent, Support

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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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  Children, Light, Desire

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Spontaneous Activity in Education”, p.108, Montessori Helper

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• The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

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  Children, Development, World

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 4), 1949.

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• The development of the mind comes through movement

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  Mind, Movement, Development

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• The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

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  Children, Mean, Independent

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• Of all things love is the most potent.

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  Love Is, Parental, All Things

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• Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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  Children, Lying, Future

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• The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

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  Children, Adults, Environment

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• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

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  Discipline, Silence, Individuality

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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