For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements. — 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 development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life. — 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
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 first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. — 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
An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's… — 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… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — 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
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
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — 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
