A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every… — 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
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is… — 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
