Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“While everyone was admiring the progress of my idiots, I was searching for the reasons which could keep the happy healthy children… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being… — 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
