Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it… — 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 child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,… — 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
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — 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
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools,… — 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
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.” — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free. — 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
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover. — 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
