Aim Quotes by Maria Montessori

9 Aim quotes by Maria Montessori

These nine excerpts showcase Montessori’s focus on purposeful learning, giving a concise picture of how she framed goals in education.

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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and…

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Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch…

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The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

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The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the…

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The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a…

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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

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To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond…

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The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally…

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This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in…

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Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which…

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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this…

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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.…

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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in…

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