#self-formation

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If what we have to do is to help man’s mental life, then the first lesson we must learn is that the tiny child’s absorbent mind finds all its nutriment in its surroundings.

The Absorbent Mind, p.97 Maria Montessori

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It is also why being a parent [and working with children] is so interesting and challenging; it helps us to understand human nature generally, and the self in particular, as few life experiences can.

Montessori From The Start, p. 79 Polk Lillard and Lillard Jessen

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The teacher, when they begin work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal themself through work.

The Absorbent Mind, p.276 Maria Montessori

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If the child is not yet master of their own actions, if they cannot obey even their own will, so much the less can they obey the will of someone else.

The Absorbent Mind, p.259 Maria Montessori

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The truth is that the personality can only develop by making use of its own powers.

The Absorbent Mind, p.254 Maria Montessori

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Reliable guidance, and the possibility of checking as we go, are the indispensable conditions for getting anywhere.

The Absorbent Mind, p.248 Maria Montessori

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So it is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

The Absorbent Mind, p.246 Maria Montessori

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We cannot teach this kind of morality to children of three, but experience can

The Absorbent Mind, p.224 Maria Montessori