If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.Maria Montessori
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.
Maria Montessori
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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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
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion that education must start from birth.
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