The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so… — 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
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm… — 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
