Important Period Quotes by Maria Montessori

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• To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
• Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as…
• Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities…
• Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
• Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It…
• Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,…
• The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
• We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced…
• Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
• Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
• By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only…

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