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• The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Promise, Mankind

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• The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

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  Children, Educator, Should

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part II, (p. 121), 1949.

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

  Maria Montessori

  Family, Children, Parenting

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

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• What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

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  Children, Miracle, Independence

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• We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

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  Children, Generations, Labor

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• Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

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  Children, Parenting, Innocence

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

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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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• 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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• Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

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  Children, Self, Shoes

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

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• To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Views, Preparation

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

  Maria Montessori

  Character, Taught, Explanation

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• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

  Maria Montessori

  Teaching, Teach, Correcting

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• ...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

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  Teacher, Children, Listening

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• The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

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  Children, Teaching, Imagination

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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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.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Learning

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• To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

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  Confusion, Details, Teach

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• The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Humanity

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• When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

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  Nature, Children, Contact

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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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• The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Adults

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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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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• 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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• We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

  Maria Montessori

  Art, Children, Thinking

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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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• A child needs freedom within limits.

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  Children, Limits, Needs

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