No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so… — 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
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence... — 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
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and… — 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
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
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — 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
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. — 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
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,… — 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
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
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — 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
