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• The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

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  Discouragement, Conviction, Source

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• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

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  Education, Greatness, Personality

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• The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

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  Children, Rights, Needs

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• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 9), 1949.

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• My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

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  School, Mean, Visions Of The Future

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• The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

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  Society, Poverty, Steps

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• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.

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  Teacher, Men, Waiting

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 9), 1949.

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• Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

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  Children, Red, Firsts

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• This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

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  Childhood, Firsts, Educator

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, (Ch. 8), 1948.

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• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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  Beauty, Science, Imagination

  "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals". Book by Maria Mitchell, p. 186, 1896.

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• Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

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  Stars, Ocean, Tree

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• The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

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  Hands, Mind, Organs

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• Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

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  Children, Dignity, Consciousness

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• Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

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  Children, Knowing, Order

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

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• Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

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  Heritage, Parts Of Life

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• All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

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  Victory, Progress, Nihilism

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.20, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

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  Children, Mind, Prejudice

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• It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.

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  Children, Discovery, Ugly

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• No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

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  Children, Independent, Independence

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.118, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

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  Children, Attitude, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2004). “The Discovery of the Child”, p.92, Aakar Books

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• The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

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  Children, Expression, Vitality

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• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

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  Change, Greatness, Personality

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• Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

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  Children, Movement, Should

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• The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

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  Children, Spring, Study

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• The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

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  Children, Parent, Guardian

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.222, Orient Blackswan

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