Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage. — 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
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“There does exist, however, an external prize for man; when, for example, the orator sees the faces of his listeners change with… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this… — 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
The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a… — 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
