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"The jockey offers a piece of sugar to his horse before jumping into the saddle, the coachman beats his horse that he may respond to the signs given by the reins; and yet, neither of these runs so superbly as the free horse of the plains."  Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.21, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.

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