"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.
"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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