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Maria Montessori: If education is...

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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 . . . . For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Source: The Absorbent Mind, ch. 1 (1949).
-- Maria Montessori, (Aug 31 1870-1952), Italian educator, reformer; She originated the Montessori method of education stressing development of initiative and freedom of the child.

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