Montessori

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    We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
    —Maria Montessori (1870–1952)

    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. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
    —Maria Montessori (1870–1952)

    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 (1870–1952)