A Quote by Maria Montessori
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
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