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• The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

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  Teacher, Environment, Divided

  Maria Montessori (2004). “The Discovery of the Child”, p.181, Aakar Books

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• When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a road had opened up within their souls that led to all their latent powers, revealing the better part of themselves. They exhibited a great affability to everyone, put themselves out to help others and seemed full of good will.

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  Children, Helping Others, Soul

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

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• To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

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  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

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  Real, Order, Needs

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• The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

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  Teacher, Real, Character

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• The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

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  Men, Hands, Instruments

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• When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

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  Children, Real, Ideas

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• The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

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  Fundamentals, Clear, Bases

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• The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

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  Children, Mean, Independent

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• The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

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  World, Way, Firsts

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• I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

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  Children, Taken, Given

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• Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

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  Reality, Ideas, Intellectual

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• We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

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  Religious, Sweet, Children

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• We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

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  Children, Emotional, Ideas

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

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• 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, Special

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• A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

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  Children, Character, Development

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• Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

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  Teacher, Giving, Listening

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• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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  Peace, War, Educational

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• No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

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  Children, Problem, Oppression

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

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• Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

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  Weapons, Today, Assuming

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• We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

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  Children, Independent, Giving

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• The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

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  Children, Enigma, Knows

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• The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

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  Children, Mold, Adults

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

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• Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

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  Education, Children, Doe

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• The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

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  Children, Progress, Being Free

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