The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from… — 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
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the… — 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
No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that… — 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… — 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
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they… — 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
If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. — 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
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’. — 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
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — 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
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
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. — 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 unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was. — 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
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.” — 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
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
