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
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and… — 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
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
I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves… — 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
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
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply 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
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
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. — 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
