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1. "The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'" ~ Maria Montessori
2. "One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child." ~ Maria Montessori
3. "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
4. "To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator." ~ Maria Montessori
5. "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." ~ Maria Montessori
6. "Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists." ~ Maria Montessori
7. "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." ~ Maria Montessori
8. "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
9. "Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." ~ Maria Montessori
10. "Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed." ~ Maria Montessori
11. "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being." ~ Maria Montessori
12. "The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil." ~ Maria Montessori
13. "The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." ~ Maria Montessori
14. "The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!" ~ Maria Montessori
15. "If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men." ~ Maria Montessori
16. "We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master." ~ Maria Montessori
17. "We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses." ~ Maria Montessori
18. "Within the child lies the fate of the future." ~ Maria Montessori
19. "Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life." ~ Maria Montessori
20. "No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child" ~ Maria Montessori
21. "Of all things love is the most potent." ~ Maria Montessori
22. "Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future." ~ Maria Montessori
23. "Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it." ~ Maria Montessori

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