Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will… — 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
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life. — 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
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential… — 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 Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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 Image
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
