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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
— Maria Montessori
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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
— Maria Montessori
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
— Maria Montessori
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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
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
— Maria Montessori
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
— Maria Montessori
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