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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.

Maria Montessori

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The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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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!
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
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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.
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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 action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
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Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
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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.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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