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“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!” quote by Maria Montessori — Download Open image

“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!”

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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

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To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

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Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

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The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a…

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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

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It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

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Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is…

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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this…

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The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger.…

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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in…

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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

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