To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

Maria Montessori
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More Quotes By Maria Montessori
  1. Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

  2. Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

  3. To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

  4. The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

  5. 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.

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