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"Today we hold the pupils in school, restricted by those instruments so degrading to body and spirit, the desk-- and material prizes and punishments.  Our aim in all this is to reduce them to the discipline of immobility and silence,-- to lead them, --where?  Far too often toward no definite end."  Maria Montessori, p. 26, The Montessori Method, Schocken Books, 1964.
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