All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
