Maria Montessori - Activity Quotes

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Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

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