Maria Montessori
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"The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity."
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"We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when we are only at the beginning of our dawning knowledge about human personality."
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"The essential thing is for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality."
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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 do not exist.'"
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"Free the child's potential and you will transform him into the world."
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"Help me to do it myself."
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
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"The child is made of one hundred. A hundred is there. If you steal ninety-nine the child left us only one."
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"It is my responsibility to be the guardian of my students' individual development."
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"The hands are the instrument of the brain."
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