The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is… — 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
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
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
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as… — 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
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
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
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
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying… — 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
If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and… — 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
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. — 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
With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through… — 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
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will… — 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
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
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — 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
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
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler… — 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
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
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies… — 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
