Education Quotes by Maria Montessori

“Teach by teaching, not by correcting.”

— Maria Montessori

Education must start from birth.

— Maria Montessori

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

— Maria Montessori

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

— Maria Montessori

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

— Maria Montessori

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

— Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I…

— Maria Montessori

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

— Maria Montessori

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

— Maria Montessori

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

— Maria Montessori

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

— Maria Montessori

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from…

— Maria Montessori

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in…

— Maria Montessori

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and…

— Maria Montessori

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her…

— Maria Montessori

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a…

— Maria Montessori

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem…

— Maria Montessori

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may…

— Maria Montessori

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient…

— Maria Montessori

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means…

— Maria Montessori

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to…

— Maria Montessori

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing…

— Maria Montessori

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading…

— Maria Montessori

... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him…

— Maria Montessori

If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation…

— Maria Montessori

This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in…

— Maria Montessori

The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally…

— Maria Montessori

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding…

— Maria Montessori

“the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his…

— Maria Montessori

Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to…

— Maria Montessori

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

— Maria Montessori

“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.”

— Maria Montessori

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

— Maria Montessori

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

— Maria Montessori

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

— Maria Montessori

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

— Maria Montessori

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

— Maria Montessori

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

— Maria Montessori

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

— Maria Montessori

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

— Maria Montessori