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“The true basis of the imagination is reality”

Book:The Advanced Montessori Method

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Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator, is known as the father of modern education. Born on August 31, 1870, in Ancona, Italy, she passed away on May 6, 1952. Dr. Montessori achieved remarkable success in the medical field, but she is most famous for her creation of the Montessori educational method, which emphasizes child-centered learning and individualized education. more

“It is strange that the imagination is the most productive when it finds no outer objects: then it creates objects itself and forms them all the more carefully, because there is no foreign material, but only its own children. There is no poetry in enjoyment (reality kills the dream), only in longing[.]”

Philosophy Imagination Creativity Romanticism German Literature

Author:Karoline von Günderrode

“Agnes discovered that both the imagined and the real worlds could be equally comforting, and that sometimes it was very hard to tell the difference.”

Reality Imagination

Book:The Restless Girls

Source: The Restless Girls

“You see, the king could control the paths his daughters trod; he could take away their pleasures and their views and lock them up. He could make sure that the princesses didn't have anything in that room except their toothbrushes and tiaras, pajamas and nightgowns. But king or no king, there was one thing they possessed that he could never own: their imaginations.”

Imagination

Book:The Restless Girls

Source: The Restless Girls

“Embrace delusions.”