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 Maria
Montessori believed
that if children are given freedom within an
environment rich in activities they will
naturally choose to work rather than play, and
that they will learn much more readily if allowed
to explore things that interest them rather than
what adults believe they should study. |
 Johann
Heinrich Pestalozzi believed
that the purpose of education was to expose the
natural powers and faculties latent in every
human being, and emphasized that the teacher
should never teach by words when a child could
see, hear or touch an object for himself. His
theories and methods proved so successful that
they still form the basis of elementary
educational systems around the world. |
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