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Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Quotes by Maria Montessori: Context & Meanings

3 quotations linked to Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by or associated with Maria Montessori, with source notes, explanations and related topics.

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1914 handbook of Montessori classroom materials and method

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Self-correction, observation, attention, comparison, judgment, reasoning, decision, order and the intended inner purpose of didactic exercises.

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The desire of the child to attain an end which he knows, leads him to correct himself.
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“The desire of the child to attain an end which he knows, leads him to correct himself.”

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A clear goal can support self-correction because the learner can compare the result with the intended end and revise without waiting for every error to be externally identified.

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Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook, discussion of self-correcting didactic material. Project Gutenberg #29635. Montessori immediately describes the child’s own intelligence, rather than the teacher, as detecting and correcting the error.

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The mind has formed itself by a special exercise of attention, observing, comparing, and classifying.
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“The mind has formed itself by a special exercise of attention, observing, comparing, and classifying.”

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Montessori describes repeated acts of attention and comparison as formative intellectual practice that organizes experience instead of merely supplying memorized content.

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Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook, discussion of sensory didactic material. The statement reflects Montessori’s historical theory of mental development and is not labeled as a current neuroscientific finding.

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The aim is an inner one, namely, that the child train himself to observe; that he be led to make comparisons between objects, to form judgments, to reason and to decide; and it is in the indefinite repetition of this exercise of attention and of intelligence that a real development ensues.
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“The aim is an inner one, namely, that the child train himself to observe; that he be led to make comparisons between objects, to form judgments, to reason and to decide; and it is in the indefinite repetition of this exercise of attention and of intelligence that a real development ensues.”

Maria Montessori
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The educational objective is not merely completion of an exercise but cultivation of observation, comparison, judgment, reasoning and increasingly independent decision-making.

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Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook. The sentence continues by connecting repeated exercises of attention and intelligence with development; it is Montessori’s pedagogical rationale for the material.

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