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
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
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
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only… — 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
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest… — 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
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — 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
At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I… — 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
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the… — 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 other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work… — 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
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
