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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern
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- Maria Montessori
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- Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Maria Montessori: life dates 1870 to 1952. Wikidata Q131117, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131117 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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