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
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. — 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
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of… — 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
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first… — 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
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
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — 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
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems… — 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
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a… — 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
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
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — 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
