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  • One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.

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