Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself. — 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
To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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 Image
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced… — 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 secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding… — 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
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.” — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name. — 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
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — 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
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