The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the… — Maria Montessori 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
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only… — 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
