The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to… — 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
Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to… — 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
At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value… — 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 art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations… — 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
