Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. — 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
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence... — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,… — 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
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
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing… — 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
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
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means… — 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
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. — 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 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
“Dr. Montessori believes in liberty for the pupil because she thinks of life "as a superb goddess, ever advancing to new conquests."… — 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
