The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him… — 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
