When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor… — 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
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to… — 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
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning… — 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
If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased. — 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
