"Do not tell them how to do it.……" — Maria Montessori
"Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves."
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Maria Montessori
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256 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.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been…
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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the…
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human…
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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective…
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Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but…
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The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
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We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker…
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being,…
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