We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who… — 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
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they… — 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
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and… — 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
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving… — 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
The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with… — 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
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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