Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education. — 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
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — 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
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 child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to… — 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
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a… — 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
Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how… — 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
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only… — 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 study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child. — 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 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
Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social 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
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That… — 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
