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
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — 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 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
If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child… — 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
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying… — 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
