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… — 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… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first… — 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
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. — 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
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. — 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
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
The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and… — 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
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from… — 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
