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.
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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
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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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 . . .
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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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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori
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