The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task. — 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
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength. — 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
The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. — 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 child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future. — 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
