"It is not enough, then, to prepare in our Masters the scientific spirit. We must also make ready the school for their observation. The school must permit free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.15, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
"There exists, then, the "spirit" of the scientist, a thing far above his mere "mechanical skill," and the scientist is at the height of his achievement when the spirit has triumphed over the mechanism. When he has reached this point, science will receive from him not only new revelations of nature, but philosophic syntheses of pure thought." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.9, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.

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