“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.” — 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
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
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of… — 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
...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
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
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
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
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. — 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
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. — 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
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 child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself. — 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
