"We know only too well the sorry spectacle of the teacher who, in the ordinary schoolroom, must pour certain cut and dried facts into the heads of scholars. In order to succeed in this barren task, she finds it necessary to discipline her pupils into immobility and to force their attention." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.21, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
"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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