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
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him. — 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
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
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
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who… — 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
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“It behooves us to think of what may happen to the spirit of the child who is condemned to grow in conditions… — 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
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only… — 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
One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — 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
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this… — 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
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
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should… — 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 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 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
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
In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the… — 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
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities… — 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
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the… — 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
