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The baby has a creative aptitude, a potential energy that will enable it to build up a mental world from the world about it. In this it will be exposed to hindering encounters, to a struggle for mental existence, which though unconscious is none the less real, with cruel consequences as regards the final success of its achievement. If no one helps it, if an environment is not prepared to receive it, it is a creature in continual peril from the point of view of its psychic life. The little child is, we might say, exposed, an unclaimed person in the world.

Quote ID: 02733

Author

Maria Montessori

Source

The Secret Of Childhood

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