Child Quotes by Maria Montessori

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

— Maria Montessori

A child needs freedom within limits.

— Maria Montessori

The child will reveal himself through work.

— Maria Montessori

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

— Maria Montessori

The child becomes a person through work.

— Maria Montessori

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

— Maria Montessori

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

— Maria Montessori

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

— Maria Montessori

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

— Maria Montessori

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

— Maria Montessori

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it…

— Maria Montessori

When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

— Maria Montessori

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

— Maria Montessori

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

— Maria Montessori

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

— Maria Montessori

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

— Maria Montessori

When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor…

— Maria Montessori

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

— Maria Montessori

“you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from…

— Maria Montessori

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

— Maria Montessori

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and…

— Maria Montessori

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work…

— Maria Montessori

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that…

— Maria Montessori

If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they…

— Maria Montessori

How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means…

— Maria Montessori

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by…

— Maria Montessori

The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just…

— Maria Montessori

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use,…

— Maria Montessori

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth,…

— Maria Montessori

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through…

— Maria Montessori

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be…

— Maria Montessori

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In…

— Maria Montessori

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

— Maria Montessori

The child endures all things.

— Maria Montessori

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

— Maria Montessori

Children become like the things they love.

— Maria Montessori

Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

— Maria Montessori

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

— Maria Montessori

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

— Maria Montessori