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• How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

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  Men, Often Is, Childhood

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• A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

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  Children, Teaching, Energy

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• The child endures all things.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Endure, All Things

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• Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

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  Independent, Psychics, Growth

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• A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

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  Responsibility, Survival, Abandoned

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• This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

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  Childhood, Firsts, Educator

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, (Ch. 8), 1948.

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• Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

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  Children, Knowing, Order

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

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• The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

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  Children, Independent, Independence

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• The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

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  Growth, Development, Levels

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• Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

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  Children, Limits, Fields

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• When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

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  Children, School, Needs

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• Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

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  Teacher, Children, School

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• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

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  Children, Lying, Moving

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions”, p.99, Read Books Ltd

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• The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

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  Children, Teaching, Development

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.28, Orient Blackswan

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• In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.

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  Children, Men, Vivid

  "The Secret of Childhood" by Maria Montessori, (p. 106), 1936.

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• A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

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  Law, Adults, Prejudice

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• A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.

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  Children, Years, Two

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• Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

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  Method, Concentration, Parts Of Life

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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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  Teacher, Men, Done

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

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  Children, Naughty, Discipline

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• By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.

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  Children, Character, School

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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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  Men, Psychics, Important

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• The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

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  Children, Ideas, Differences

  "The Montessori Reader".

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• If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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  Children, Parenting, Men

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

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• The children are now working as if I did not exist.

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  Education, Teacher, Children

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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