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Maria Montessori - Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (1914)

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Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation. The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.

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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

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Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

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The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

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It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
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Maria Montessori

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Born: August 31, 1870
Died: May 6, 1952 (aged 81)
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