We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.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
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
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori
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
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