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
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… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.” — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding… — 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
To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Dr. Montessori believes in liberty for the pupil because she thinks of life "as a superb goddess, ever advancing to new conquests."… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each… — 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
