It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as… — 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
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
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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
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
