Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential… — 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
It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm… — 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
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means… — 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 they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
