Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — 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
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with… — 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
It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of… — 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… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type,… — 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
When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a… — 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
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving… — 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
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social… — 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
It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential — 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
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well… — 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
