Maria Montessori

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. ↗

— 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

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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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! ↗

— Maria Montessori

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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

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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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