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- The Montessori Method (1912 English translation), Ch. V opening — located verbatim in the Project Gutenberg full text (ebook #39863), not taken on a citation's word
- The Montessori Method
- 1912 · N/A (educational treatise) · Montessori opening her chapter on discipline by describing children as beings who grow in body and in spirit together
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