The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.” — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child. — 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 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
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by… — 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
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be… — 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 an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding… — 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
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — 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
If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation… — 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
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
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect. — 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
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life. — 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
Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — 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
The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the… — 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… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing… — 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
