Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his… — 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 first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just… — 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
Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. — 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 child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. — 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 adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself. — 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
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us. — 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
When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social… — 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
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of… — 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
We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little… — 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
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
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It… — 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
