Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. — 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
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — 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
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
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems… — 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 fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him… — 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
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
Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by… — 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 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
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
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
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
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom… — 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 teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of… — 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
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
“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
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. — 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 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
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. — 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
