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

— Maria Montessori The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000)

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The children are now working as if I did not exist.

The Absorbent Mind (1949)

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

The Discovery of the Child (1948)

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The Absorbent Mind (1949)

He is a serene and pleasant man where he is powerful through being efficient, but is domineering where he is served.

The Montessori Method (1912)

To prepare teachers in the method of the experimental sciences is not an easy matter.

The Montessori Method (1912)

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