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• Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

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  Children, Trying, Form

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

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• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

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  Self, Essence, Independence

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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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• 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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• Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

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  Joy, Growth, Evidence

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• The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

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  Children, Profound, Discipline

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

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• Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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  Understanding, Intellectual, Growth

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

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• The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

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  Children, Land, Roots

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

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  Firsts, Intellect, Senses

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• Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

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  Children, Helping, Veneration

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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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• 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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• 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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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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  Education, Children, Tests

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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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• 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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• The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

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  Children, Years, Three

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• A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

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  Children, Persons

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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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• Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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  Children, Lying, Future

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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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• A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

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  Children, Splendid, Form

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