To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.Maria Montessori
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Maria Montessori
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
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
Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silentas a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
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
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