Intellectual Quotes by Maria Montessori

9 Intellectual quotes by Maria Montessori

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Montessori’s nine short sayings on the intellectual emphasize the importance of nurturing curiosity and respect in learning. The set provides a succinct glimpse into her child‑centered educational philosophy.

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Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by…

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A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so…

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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work…

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The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect,…

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Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement…

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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate…

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When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the…

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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

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To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

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Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

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The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a…

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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

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It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

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Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which…

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The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this…

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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.…

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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in…

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