"There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers." (Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind)

Secret of Good Teaching

"The secret of good teaching
is to regard the child’s intelligence
as a fertile field
in which seeds may be sown,
to grow under the heat
of flaming imagination.
Our aim therefore is not
merely to make the child understand…
but so to touch his imagination
as to enthuse him to his inmost core."

Maria Montessori
To Educate the Human Potential

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