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  The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

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  Children, Goal, Childhood

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• Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

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  Running, Morning, Children

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  The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

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  Children, School, Doe

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  Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

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  Leadership, Moving, Watches

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• There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

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  Children, Community, Atmosphere

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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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  Children, Environment, Montessori

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• The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.

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  Strong, Children, Giving

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  The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

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  Children, Childhood, Important

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• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.

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  Children, Growing Up, Self

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• What the hand does the mind remembers.

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  Hands, Mind, Doe

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  We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

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  Generosity, Unity, Together

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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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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  Children, Imagination, Force

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• Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

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  Children, Humanity, Craving

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• The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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• Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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  Education, Children, Parenting

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• Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

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  Education, Children, Learning

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• The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

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  Children, Mind, Able

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• Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

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  Joy, Soul, Feelings

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• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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  Family, Children, Parenting

  Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

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• First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

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  Firsts, Intellect, Senses

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• As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

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  Children, Interest, Loses

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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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• Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

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  Education, Path, Release

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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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• 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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  Men, Hands, Play

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