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Up Quotes by Maria Montessori
- No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.
- The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in…
- This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
- Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
- 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…
- Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
- Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
- 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…
- A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the…
- 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…
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