We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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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."
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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.
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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 observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
Maria Montessori
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