Maria Montessori
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"Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori" was an Italy/Italian physician and educator best known for the Montessori education/philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in some public and private schools throughout the world.

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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.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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.

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.