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29 October 2021 - 12:00am
"The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear."
Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind