The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! — 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, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof… — 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
