"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks"
- Maria Montessori
About this Quote
Maria Montessori is mentioning that for any academic action to be genuinely reliable, it needs to promote the complete and natural development of the person. In order to do so, it is necessary to avoid preventing the natural and spontaneous propensities of the person, and to not enforce pointless jobs that do not serve this end.
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"