“Montessori is about a kid with a stick, digging a hole in the mud—hands dirty, engaged, fascinated, uninterrupted.” — Trevor Eissler Copy Share Image
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“You are enough. You are more than enough. You have always been and will always be enough. Keep shining bright, and never… — Leyda Lazo Copy Share Image
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children… — Connie Smith Copy Share Image
I was a strong supporter of Montessori when my kids were very little. I homeschooled for a year, and then we did… — Jane O'Meara Sanders 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
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
In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and… — 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
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
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
“A clue can be taken from the discarded toys. Why does the child reject them? Because, according to Montessori, they do not… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Montessori classrooms emphasize self-directed learning, hands-on engagement with a wide variety of materials (including plants and animals), and a largely unstructured school… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. — 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
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
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