Maria Montessori

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“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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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.”

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child”

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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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.”

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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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."

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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"Joy is the evidence of inner growth."

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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"The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself."

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

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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."

― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)