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 education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. — 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
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
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
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — 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
Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing 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
... 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
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
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
